Little penguin Pearl is so rare she is first of her type seen by an academic who has been studying her species for a decade.

The sighting took us down somewhat of a rabbit hole that landed us on a website for the city of Brevard, North Carolina, ...

This superstition about black cats and other black animals in general has shaped people’s preferences about animals. It’s left its mark on things such as lower adoption rates for black cats and ...

In animals, loss-of-function mutations in the MC1R gene can result ... including melanistic and leucistic or albinism coloration, affects the conservation of animals in the United States.

HONOLULU ( KHON) — Whale watchers around Hawaii are crossing their fingers for another glimpse of what could be an albino whale. This particular whale species known as Blackfish resides in Hawaii year ...

White lions are not albinos but leucistic, which means their pale coat results from a recessive gene mutation that dilutes pigmentation. This trait was first recorded in the wild in the Timbavati ...

Meanwhile, albinism affects all pigments and is caused by a genetic mutation that prevents the ... Parks and Wildlife wrote in a post about a leucistic squirrel spotted at Staunton State Park ...