Mark Laita, who first created a video about the Whittakers of Odd, West Virginia, five years ago, has consistently returned ...

Purebred dogs might look flawless on the outside, but their beauty often hides a disturbing genetic truth. For generations, breeders have prioritized traits like coat color and snub noses over genetic ...

A documentary filmmaker has said that America's most inbred family called the Whittakers, who have no education and live in squalor in West Virginia, were 'like a scene out of Deliverance' The ...

"Of all the subspecies of reindeer found in the high north, the Svalbard reindeer has the most inbreeding and the lowest genetic diversity," says Nicolas Dussex, a postdoc at Norwegian University of ...

An Alaska Department of Fish and Game wildlife biologist came upon this Alexander Archipelago wolf on Prince of Wales Island in the summer of 2018. It had been sleeping. It woke up and moved away.

Bones from the two ancient predatory species were found in the La Brea tar pits in what is now West Hollywood and showed signs of bone disease not normally seen in wild animals. When you purchase ...

It all began in Switzerland, with an area of lush agricultural land, and became a dynasty that dominated Southeast Europe for ...

The degree of distortion in facial features is on the rise in certain endangered gorilla species, possibly due to inbreeding. Facial asymmetry in primates – including humans – is marked by a sort of ...

Researchers have compiled the first genome sequences of desert pupfish from the American Southwest, including the unique Devils Hole pupfish. The genomes of the 8 Devils Hole pupfish sequenced ...

Mark Laita first met the Whittaker family in Odd, West Virginia, five years ago and has continued to visit them to share ...