The bones of horse-like creatures unearthed in a 4500-year-old royal tomb in Syria are the earliest known hybrid animals bred by people, with DNA sequencing showing them to be crosses of donkeys ...

Bronze Age bioengineers created the earliest hybrid animal – a majestic horselike creature known as a kunga that had a donkey mom, a Syrian wild ass for a father and lived 4,500 years ago ...

scientists determined the animal was the rare offspring of a polar bear that mated with a grizzly, and as the Arctic melts and polar bears increasingly move on land, sightings of these hybrids are ...

Ancient texts from the kingdom of Ebla and the Diyala region in Mesopotamia detail the prices of obtaining the hybrid animal, which cost six times the amount for a donkey, according to the study.

In the Disney movie, “The Fox and the Hound,” the two eponymous animals become unlikely friends. It turns out, the pairing may not have been so far-fetched. A dog-fox hybrid was recently ...

Scientists in Brazil were buzzing with excitement after stumbling upon an "amazing" new creature - a unique blend of a dog and a fox. This perplexing animal, nicknamed a 'dogxim', found itself at ...

An out-of-state wolf-dog hybrid adopted by a Highland family may be killed or sent to a sanctuary. Oakland County Animal Control is exploring the possibility of sending Rocky to an out-of-state ...

"Honestly, we're not 100% sure about it," Cate said. "... It is potentially some kind of hybrid animal that escaped from captivity" or a leucistic (white-coated) gray fox. Sightings such as this ...

Alice Gibbs is a Newsweek Senior Internet Trends & Culture Reporter based in the U.K. For the last two years she has specialized in viral trends and internet news, with a particular focus on ...