According to genetic researchers headed by Prof Leif Andersson of Texas A&M University, Uppsala University and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,...
Dr Juliana Small of the University of Pennsylvania, Drs Raj Kurupati, Xianqyang Zhou and their colleagues from the Wistar Institute have developed a novel...
According to a team of genetic researchers headed by Prof David Denlinger of the Ohio State University, the Antarctic midge (Belgica antarctica) has the...
About half the world’s population carries a newly discovered gut virus, dubbed CrAssphage, says a team of virologists led by Prof Robert Edwards of San...
New genetic research conducted by scientists from Griffith University in Nathan, Australia, and the Natural History Museum in Tring, UK, has confirmed...
According to a group of genetic scientists led by Dr Gerton Lunter of the University of Oxford’s Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, only 8.2 percent...
The first ever systematic genetic analysis of evidence purporting to be from so-called anomalous primates such as yeti and migoi in the Himalaya, almasty...
Tibetans were able to adapt to high altitudes thanks to what is sometimes called the super-athlete gene, or more prosaically, EPAS1, they acquired when...
A group of ornithologists led by Dr Trevor Price of the University of Chicago has described a new family of birds that is represented by just one species,...
Scientists have described a spectacular new species of shade lizard from the cloudforests of northwestern Ecuador.
Alopoglossus viridiceps, male, about...
Scientists led by Dr Kristofer Helgen from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History have erected a new genus called Neomonachus...
According to new genetic research reported in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, populations of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in North...
According to a team of biologists led by Dr Gregory Dick from the University of Michigan, at deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the western Pacific, previously...
Scientists led by Dr Greger Larson of Durham University, UK, have for the first time compared DNA from living and extinct lions to reconstruct the historical...
European beaver (Castor fiber) has been strongly affected by expanding human populations for many thousands of years, says a team of genetic scientists...
A new study, conducted by a large consortium involving more than 30 groups from the United States, Canada, Australia and European countries, provides a...
In two new studies, genetic researchers have shown that about 20 percent of the Neanderthal genome survives in modern humans of non-African ancestry and...
