TwistedSifter on MSN

Researchers Forced Cane Toads To Hatch As Albinos In Order To Determine Why Natural Selection Has Made This Condition So Rare

Using the CRISPR-Cas9 tool, the researchers edited the toad eggs to turn off a gene known as tyrosinase, which is responsible ...
Discover Wildlife

Purple is nature's rarest colour but purple animals do exist: Meet 9 beautiful, incredible purple animals that look like they've been painted

The violet carpenter bee (Xylocopa violacea) is a rare and exotic-looking bee that can grow up to 3cm. It has a striking ...
Tyler Nolan on MSN

Rare Albino Gaboons Receive a Stunning Habitat Transformation

The world’s heaviest viper gets a high-tech habitat. Albino Gaboons, with their rare genetics and immense size, receive ...
Shreveport Times

Louisiana has a rare bubble-gum pink dolphin swimming in the state's Gulf Coast waters

"Pinky," an incredibly rare pink dolphin, has been swimming in Louisiana's Gulf Coast waters for nearly 20 years. What to know about the albino dolphin.
Australian Geographic

Gene-edited cane toads reveal the cost of albinism

A study using albino cane toads with edited genes challenges the belief that albino wildlife is rare because it’s more ...
AZ Animals

This Rare Feline Was Photographed for the First Time

Did you hear about the rare white Iberian lynx that was captured in a photograph for the first time? Learn all about this ...

Incredible moment all-white albino humpback whale bursts from water in ultra rare drone sighting of real-life Moby Dick

THIS is the amazing moment an ultra-rare, all-white albino humpback whale spurts out of the ocean. The incredible drone ...
The Republican Herald

Rare ‘white’ vulture turns heads at Hawk Mountain

Biologist Bracken Brown couldn’t believe his eyes when he spotted the seemingly out-of-place bird soaring through the sky. “I ...

Incredibly rare albino whale spotted off coast of Australia. Watch it swim

Humpback whales are no longer endangered, thanks to protections like the moratorium on commercial whaling that began in 1985, but an albino whale is incredibly rare. New South Wales is a state on the ...
National Audubon Society

‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Photos Capture a Rare White Loon’s First Summer

Montana photographer Tony Gangemi documented a season in the life of a leucistic Common Loon, from its first days as a ...
Scientific American

A Flicker of Hope for the World’s Rarest Porpoise

Among the vaquitas spotted this September were an individual called Frida and her calf. The calf appeared to be about a year ...

Lehigh Valley Zoo welcomes rare baby alpaca with black fleece, naming the first-ever female

SCHNECKSVILLE, Pa. - The Lehigh Valley Zoo has announced the birth of its first female alpaca.  The cria was born on Oct. 23, marking the third offspring for mother Illuminati and father Havoc, ...