Watch “I was extremely fortunate to sight T18 with its pseudo melanistic cub. T18 has 2 cubs, one normal one melanistic. Father is normal too. Below are camera trapped pictures from the same grid.

Shomo, who went to high school at T.F. North and arrowed his first deer in 1995 as a teenager, arrowed the melanistic with his Mathews Triax bow. ‘‘Nobody believes it,’’ he said.

A prehistoric jet black river creature with shark-like teeth has been caught in the Choctawhatchee River in Florida. The melanistic longnose gar was found by the Fish and Wildlife Research ...

Wildlife biologists aren’t quite sure how many exist, and many anglers will go a lifetime without seeing one. “Well… me and Terrell found out melanistic gar do exist yesterday,” wrote Jourdan in the ...

Black Canada lynx seen for the first time ever The dark-furred cat has a genetic condition called melanism that has been observed in about a third of cats, but not previously in this species.

The article says only 10 other melanistic bobcats have ever been recorded — all found in Florida. The melanistic bobcat is only the second ever found in Canada and might be the 12th ever recorded.