Schoen and Toczydlowski hypothesized that populations that had suffered more severe bottlenecks (i.e., had shrunk to smaller ...

Conservationists saved the fuzzy creatures in Victoria, Australia. Now, the animals are showing remarkable signs of genetic recovery ...

Body condition score (BCS) also influences lifespan. Studies show that dogs that have a lean body condition live approximately 2 years longer than dogs that are overweight. Obesity increases the risk ...

Most lethal mutations in wild fruit flies are driven by newly transferred jumping genes, not small DNA errors, according to a ...

From shorebirds flying between their Arctic breeding grounds and southerly foraging ranges to freshwater fish returning to native spawning streams, migratory animals are struggling. About half of all ...

For the first time in the world, BSIP and ZSI are attempting to sequence the whole nuclear genome of this extinct Indian big ...

Should you ever find yourself playing a trivia game on the topic of moths and butterflies, here are a few facts that might ...

A new study reveals that habitat fragmentation can lead to sudden "tipping points" where a species' genetic health ...

Jayashri Kulkarni receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council as a Leadership Level 3 Investigator Grant, and has received clinical trials funding from pharmaceutical ...

YouTube suffered a global outage on Tuesday, with thousands of people reporting issues with the platform from around 8:00 p.m. ET. Now, we know what caused it. In a statement posted to the official ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a towering civil rights icon who battled alongside Martin Luther King Jr., died Tuesday, Feb. 17, USA TODAY reported. He was 84. During his lifetime, Jackson negotiated global ...

Thai authorities say tigers in confined environments can be particularly vulnerable to the canine distemper viral infection.