Never-before-seen colorful bird hybrid surprises scientists. The offspring of a scarlet tanager and rose-breasted grosbeak—distantly related birds whose evolutionary paths diverged 10 million ...

The offspring of a rose-breasted grosbeak and a scarlet tanager is the "first-ever documented hybrid of its kind." The new hybrid songbird, affectionately called the "tanabeak," was found in the ...

The bird had never been documented before, but it was a hybrid that resulted from two related hummingbird species: the pink-throated Brilliant hummingbird, Heliodoxa gularis, and the Rufous-webbed ...

Ligers, zorses, and pizzlies: How animal hybrids happen. Interbreeding between animals of different lineages is widespread in nature—and may reveal some of the mysteries of evolution.

For those hybrid birds that do hatch, their mixed-up genomes lead to problems. A study from another area of Black-­cap-Carolina overlap, in Ohio, ...

Jacki Howard, of Geauga County, identified a rare sapsucker hybrid in her backyard, drawing interest from bird experts. Learn about this unique bird encounter. Skip Navigation.