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Re:What is a species, anyway? by gnatman on Monday February 19, 2024 @04:18PM (#39434952)
Y'all should read the article. It goes into more depth than these two comments! For example, two species can have sex, AND produce viable offspring, but NOT produce fertile offspring. Like a donkey and horse producing a typically infertile mule. Horses and donkeys are not the same species.
Re:What is a species, anyway? by onychomys on Monday February 19, 2024 @04:28PM (#39435037)
And sometimes you can have two things that everybody agrees are different species but which happily hybridize (with fertile offspring) all the time!

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/05/07/gene-flow-between-...

Re:What is a species, anyway? by eviks on Monday February 19, 2024 @04:46PM (#39435208)
Viable=fertile here
Re:What is a species, anyway? by InitialLastName on Monday February 19, 2024 @05:39PM (#39435686)
Re:What is a species, anyway? by eviks on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @02:37AM (#39438870)
Extremely rare exceptions like are not a challenge to classification