In a new look at the blue whale genome, scientists shed further light on the animal’s tendency to mate with another oceanic species. Interspecies breeding is a well-documented phenomenon in both domestic and wild settings. Zebra and donkey, lions and tigers, and grizzly bears and polar bears are but a few animals that have mated in the wild. But as it turns out, blue whales are also partial to love across the genome. Blue whales are the biggest animal on the planet In a new study published in the Conservation Genetics journal on January 6, researchers documented their time-consuming effort of …