Black footed cats are already a threatened species, and habitat fragmentation is now causing increased rates of interbreeding, placing them at higher risk of disease. When you purchase through links ...

"Fifty years from now, will there be Masai giraffes? I don't know. I think it's a 50/50 proposition," Douglas Cavener, who has published a new study on the risks facing the species, told Live Science.

Sabre-toothed tigers and dire wolves that lived in the last glacial period had surprisingly high rates of an inheritable bone disease, which might reflect inbreeding as the ancient carnivores ...

When it comes to love, a group of giraffes is keeping it in the family. It may be killing them. Biologists discovered alarmingly high levels of inbreeding among Masai giraffes, an endangered ...