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- Grolar Bear. Usually, it’s a bad idea for cousins to reproduce, but try telling this to the Grolar bear: a lovechild of the two most fearsome mammals on land, a polar bear and grizzly bear.
- Dzo. A product of a yak and domestic cattle, the Dzo is bred primarily to be a pack animal. They are found in Central Asia, and can also be called by a few other names, such as khainag in Mongolian, and yattle or yakow in English.
- Coywolf. One of the most common hybrids to come about naturally is the coywolf. They are made up of a combination of coyotes with either eastern or gray wolves, and are occasionally called “wolfotes”.
- Liger. The liger is the offspring of a male Lion and a female Tiger. Ligers only exist in captivity today, because the habitats of the parental species do not overlap out in the wild.
Apr 5, 2024 · If an elephant, a hippopotamus, a dolphin, and a manatee magically merged into one creature, it might look like a dugong. In fact, dugongs (Dugong dugon) are cousins of manatees and share a similar appearance, but for their dolphin fluke-like tail, shorter fins, and long, more prehistoric-looking face. Both are related to elephants, but not hippos.
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Image courtesy of nutmeg66's Flickr stream. The cute and cuddly harp seal pup might look drastically different from its greatest predator, the polar bear, but biologically-speaking the two species are actually rather similar. Pinnipeds (the group containing seals, walruses and sea lions) evolved from a creature called the puijila, which is believed...
Image courtesy of gmacfadyen's Flickr stream. Elephants are distinct-looking creatures, but they have a surprisingly large and diverse family. While at first glance it’s easy to think their closest relatives might be hippos or rhinos — the other large African creatures with gray skin— the truth is much stranger. So what critters are most closely re...
Image courtesy of krumbecker's Flickr stream. Scientists originally believed hippos were most closely related to pigs since they have similar ridges on their molars, but DNA analysis shows that the semi-aquatic critters are more closely related to the fully-aquatic family of cetaceans –which contains dolphins, porpoises and whales. Image courtesy o...
Image courtesy of Mrs TeePot's Flickr stream. The rhino is another creature that seems like a relative of hippos or elephants, but is instead more closely related to horses. When you think about tapirs as a sort of link between horses and rhinos, the evolutionary story becomes a little easier to believe. Image courtesy of Tom Raftery's Flickr strea...
Image courtesy of Marieke IJsendoorn-Kuijupers' Flickr stream. Hyenas might look like dogs, but biologically speaking they’re a lot closer to big cats, which is why they are in the feliformia suborder. If that weren’t enough, despite their stripes and spots, they’re actually closer to mongooses than they are to tigers and jaguars. In fact, many of ...
Image courtesy of Adam Fagen's Flickr stream. Looking at the okapi, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s related to zebras. After all, they have a similar stance and stripes. But the okapi is far more closely related to the giraffe. While the okapi has a noticeably smaller neck than a giraffe, their bodies are otherwise quite similar. They also both...
The dugong (/ ˈd (j) uːɡɒŋ /; Dugong dugon) is a marine mammal. It is one of four living species of the order Sirenia, which also includes three species of manatees.
Sep 12, 2019 · Have you ever heard of ligers and tigons-mixes between lions and tigers? Wolfdogs, a mix between wolves and dogs? Or maybe a grolar, a grizzly and polar bear mix? When organisms from two different species mix, or breed together, it is known as hybridization. The offspring that are produced from these mixes are known as hybrids.
Feb 27, 2024 · Dugongs are part of the Sirenia order, which sounds like it’s straight out of a fantasy novel, right? They’re basically marine mammals that decided legs were overrated and evolved to live in the water full-time. They’re closely related to manatees, but with some key differences that we’ll get into.
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Aug 9, 2015 · The dugong is the largest herbivore in the ocean, but will frequently feed on small invertebrates like jellyfish — what is more aesthetically hardcore than eating a jellyfish?
