Hybrid animals are not nature's misfits -- Science & Technology -- Sott.net
© IStock/W1ZZARD Liger cub and other hybrid animals are more common than once thought. In the 20th century, animals such as mules and ligers that had parents of different species were considered biological flukes, but genetic sequencing is beginning to unravel the critical role of hybridization in evolution. The whale's teeth were what had caught molecular ecologist Eline Lorenzen's attention. Of the 18 chompers lining the front of the skull's mouth, some were twisted, not unlike a narwhal's tusk. But the 30-year-old specimen, hidden away in the basement of the Natural History Museum of Den...
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