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Jun 25, 2025
#Scientists Discover Girl Born From Two Different Species Slon’s mouth dropped open as she stared at the sample on screen. There had to have been a mistake. She repeated the experiment multiple times, but each time she arrived at the same conclusion. 🔔 Hit the bell next to Subscribe so you never miss a video! ❤️ Like, Comment and Subscribe if you are new to the channel! Join Our Family For More Exclusive Content and Perks : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOaD4JxNYk29LHbHTOx3SQA/join 🔗 More Amazing Stories from Our Channel: ✅ Man Walks 20 Miles To Work Until One Day Cop Follows Him And Sees Why https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHlFcQ0OF8g ✅In 1997, She Got Septuplets — See What They Look Like 21 Years Later! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dQpSkmEv_Y #did_you_know
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slon's mouth dropped open as she stared
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at the sample on screen there had to
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have been a mistake she repeated the
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experiment over and over and over again
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but each time she arrived at the same
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conclusion the mysterious girl showed
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Slan the answers she had always looked
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for and showed the world our own
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forgotten past the unsettling discovery
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was truly significant but before we
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miss any new stories when Vivian Slan
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began her career as a paleogeneticist
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she never could have imagined she'd find
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something as extraordinary as she did on
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that fateful day in the laboratory in
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Leipig Germany vivian always had a keen
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interest in where we came from her
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curiosity into answering this question
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led her to become a scientist to reckon
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with in 2012 researchers discovered a
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fragment of ancient bone in a cave in
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Siberia the unremarkable bone was tossed
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in a research pile of the other animal
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fossils that were discovered along with
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it at the time researchers thought it
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was just another sample of an early
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human species Denisova that was
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discovered at the site 2 years before
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but that was far from the truth the
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existence of the Dennisova was
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discovered when scientists analyzed a
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tooth and finger bone found in the Altai
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Mountains and identified it as a
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completely new species of early human or
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hominin a term that means all the
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species regarded as human there are a
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number of hominins recorded to date the
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earliest known human ancestors date back
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to more than 4 million years ago the
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orolopiththesines are the first human
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ancestor recorded who could climb and
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walk upright on two legs these distant
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relatives first emerged in Africa way
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before modern humans appeared on Earth
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for context Homo sapiens first emerged
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approximately 200 to 300
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years ago and Slan wanted to find out
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more about what happened during that
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time the fragment of bone lay forgotten
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beside the animal fossils in Slan's
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laboratory at the Max Plank Institute
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for Evolutionary Anthropology until she
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directed one of her colleagues to look
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closer at the old specimens to update
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their filing system it was that simple
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request that changed the world's entire
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understanding of our human history
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slan's mouth dropped open as she stared
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at the sample on screen there had to
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have been a mistake for years of working
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and studying the samples of DNA that
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came to her lab Slan thought she had
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seen it all she had studied numerous
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different species of early humans that
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were discovered before her and loved to
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imagine their lives and the world as she
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did her work she especially loved to
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study the species known as Homohidal
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Brigensis who emerged about 700 years
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ago the Homohidlebergensus came from
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Africa and Eurasia and were much more
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like modern people in their appearance
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they were particularly interesting to
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Slan as they laid the foundation for how
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their descendants would evolve but they
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acted pretty differently from their
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predecessors too just like another
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species Slan was fascinated by the
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Neanderthalss are widely known in
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today's society as they only emerged 40
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years ago their DNA still remains in
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most people of European and Asian
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descent and that's because they mated
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with Homo sapiens slan was fascinated by
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what the world looked like at that time
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and how all the species interacted with
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each other to result in the world and
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people we have today but she could have
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never imagined she'd find a real life
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clue slan's colleague studied the bone
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fragment as instructed and immediately
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asked for her help the sequence in the
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DNA wasn't like the Dennisova sample she
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was expecting she stared at the sample
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puzzled over what went wrong that's when
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Slan came to lend her expertise and help
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her colleague understand what was
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occurring in the DNA or more aptly to
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discover what secret the DNA was hiding
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when Slan analyzed the DNA present in
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the bone's mitochondria she had no idea
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what was waiting for her the bone
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fragment was just 1 in in size but she
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could already tell something for certain
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the DNA indicated that it belonged to a
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teenage girl who was about 15 years old
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at first the bone looked like it
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belonged to Dennisova but something
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didn't quite add up slan grabbed more
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equipment and began to analyze the
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nuclear DNA "this was already very
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exciting," Slan told National Geographic
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"it only got more exciting when we
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started looking at the nuclear DNA
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that's when we realized there was
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something a bit funky about this bone,"
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Slan continued slan's knowledge of
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genetics told her that material is
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passed down by both the mom and dad it
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wasn't enough to know who this bone
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belonged to but where she came from and
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who her parents were slan excitedly got
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to work but nothing could have prepared
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her for the shock of making a monumental
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scientific discovery when she studied
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the results at first she thought she had
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made a mistake she redid the analysis
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again and again before coming to the
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realization that she had stumbled upon
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something extraordinary while studying
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the bone fragment she realized that the
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ancient girl's genetic makeup was
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incredibly diverse her hetererozygosity
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was incredibly high for relatives
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hetererozygosity would present in DNA as
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relatively meager for unrelated but same
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species it would present higher but
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still relatively small but in this
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ancient girl the presence of
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hetererozygosity at an alarmingly high
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rate could only mean one thing slan's
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eyes grew wide as she looked at the test
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analysis for the final time she had
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discovered one of the holy grails in
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human evolution slan discovered that
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this bone fragment belonged to a firstg
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generation child of interbreeding
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between two different species who were
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her parents the analysis showed that
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this girl was the love child of a dad
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who was a Dennis and a mom who was a
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Neanderthal but how was it even possible
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we knew from previous studies that
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Neanderthalss and Denisvens must have
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occasionally had children together Slan
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told London newspaper the Evening
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Standard but I never thought we would be
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so lucky as to find an actual offspring
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of the two groups geneticist David Reich
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who worked at Harvard University agreed
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it's amazing to be able to find
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something like this Rich said to
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National Geographic it seemed unlikely
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that we would be able to catch it
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happening in the act an individual
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that's really the product of a first
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generation hybrid however how is
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interbreeding possible without resulting
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in deformities in the offspring although
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a mule which is bred by a donkey and a
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horse can be born relatively healthy it
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will always be infertile preventing it
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from producing young of its own but
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there are other species that defy the
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deformities science of interbreeding and
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one such case is seen in big cats have
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you ever heard of a liger scientists
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took a peek into the DNA of 144 Gwen
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monkeys the idea was to find out why the
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two groups had such distinct features
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they found that the unique evolution was
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not because of separate breeding within
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the two distinct species of ape in fact
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the red monkeys and blue ones were
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naturally creating hybrid babies and not
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in the confines of the zoo looking
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further into this interesting group
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researchers found that the original
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inhabitants were the red monkeys the
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area was later invaded by the blue one
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both sides didn't seem to mind the stark
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differences in appearance this brings
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the first key that's vital to
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understanding where we came from habitat
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changes that force migration the cross
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between a grizzly bear and a polar bear
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is also called a prizly cute right the
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hybrids were first found in the wild
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then the zoos decided to try and breed
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the new pairing in captivity the reason
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however is quite sad to the point where
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they shouldn't have existed at all the
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new species bred out of desperation due
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to the melting ice shelves the polar
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bears were forced to migrate anywhere
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with solid land also both sides had
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their habitats destroyed to the point
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where they couldn't find food so the
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second factor is climate change this
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crossbreed comes from a male wolf and
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female coyotes the interesting thing is
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that the offspring remains fertile so
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it's not like a mule they babies grow up
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to look larger than their mothers but
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with features less like the father
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they're also adept at survival but this
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comes with a prince because both sides
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roaming grounds have got smaller they've
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started to invade each other's territory
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they breed so much that scientists had
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to go out and sterilize some of the
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females because they were worried the
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pure strain of wolf DNA would be
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irreversibly diluted pulfins come from a
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female dolphin tercops truncatus and a
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male false killer whales sudorca
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cedidins these hybrids however are
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incredibly rare more so than the other
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examples on this list the first recorded
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one was in Tokyo SeaWorld in 1,981
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but he died after 200 days it was first
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believed the pairing would end up with
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infertile offspring years later they
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found out it wasn't the case the mother
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and babies had a really hard time either
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the calves wouldn't live very long or
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the mother wouldn't feed them some
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specialists think it's because the
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female gave birth too early in life the
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last example is unbelievable these
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amazing hybrids actually are a
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combination of female land iguana and
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male marine iguanas that's right water
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and land have finally come together the
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babies have distinct features from both
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parents but the reason why they managed
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to join comes from a delicate balance of
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conditions in this case mother nature
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gave the green light to these boys and
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girls because it was a better way to
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survive the harsh conditions surrounding
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the Galapagos Islands the marine iguanas
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couldn't find enough seaweed their
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staple food but even though there was
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plenty of food on land it was too hard
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for them to traverse the rocky shores so
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they made children that had the best of
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both worlds this all brings us back to
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our story of the two humanoids between
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harsh conditions climate alterations and
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habitat changes we see that nature can
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usually find a way to adapt or to quote
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the famous Jurassic Park life finds a
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way one can only imagine what happened
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long ago to bring Denisven and
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Neanderthal together as for Slan it was
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a groundbreaking breadcrumb of human
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history and discovery she will never
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forget
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