What makes it possible for a goat and a sheep to produce in rare cases live offspring?

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Also if you keep trying hard enough would live offspring be possible between humans and warthogs?

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Goats and sheep have relatively recent common ancestors so the DNA is relatively similar and thus then can have viable offspring.

I can’t say where the common ancestor of a warthog and human would be – probably close to the evolution of first mammals. Thus the DNA between Humans and Warthogs has diverged too much for viable offspring.