Interesting, I'm not sure if the mules mating were with mules or a horse etc. Minor point was not all mules are sterile. Odds are prolly 1 in a million, but it happens/d. I wonder what they call a mule of a mule?

http://www.phudpucker.com/mules/mule.htm

just one site, says they have not bred? I'll have to file a complaint with the discovery channel. I know that is where I saw it.

And another site says

http://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=143


What would be optimal is to find two species that can breed to create some sort of offspring—sort of like the donkey and the horse. But for there to be some way to get a mule that wasn’t sterile.

How might this happen? Well, one way is by pure chance. One lucky mule might get some sort of mutation or its chromosomes might get rearranged somehow to make it fertile. Of course with mules, you’d need two of them, a male and a female.

The odds are pretty low that something like this would happen so you’d need millions of mules to have even a fighting chance. And of course we don’t have the time or resources to generate millions and millions of mules and have them all breed with each other to create a new species.

OK, I have no idea.
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