About 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period, a 10-km-wide asteroid crashed into Earth near the site of the town of Chicxulub in what...
A team of scientists in China has assembled a telomere-to-telomere reference genome for ginseng (Panax ginseng), a representative of Chinese traditional...
Amoebidium appalachense, a protist closely related to animals, harbors the remnants of ancient giant viruses woven into its own genetic code, according...
New research shows that recurrent episodes of gene flow, beginning 250,000 to 200,000 years ago, affected the genomes and biology of both modern humans...
Scientists from Baylor College of Medicine and elsewhere say they have discovered subfossils of ancient chromosomes in the remains of a female woolly mammoth...
Dingoes (Canis dingo) are an iconic element of Australia’s biodiversity, but evidence-based management and conservation of dingoes depend on understanding...
A team of scientists from the Swedish Museum of Natural History and elsewhere has described a new species of nightjar living in the tropical forests of...
In collaboration with Indigenous rangers and conservation managers, scientists from the University of Sydney and elsewhere have decoded the genomes of...
Woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) became isolated on Wrangel Island off the coast of Siberia around 10,000 years ago and persisted for over 200 generations...
Coffee is one of the most widely consumed beverages. In new research, scientists from the University of California, San Diego and elsewhere performed a...
Horses revolutionized human history with fast mobility. However, the timeline between their domestication and widespread integration as a means of transportation...
The extinction of the woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) at the onset of the Holocene remains an enigma, with conflicting evidence regarding its...
Researchers have successfully decoded the genome of the pineapple mint (Mentha suaveolens), a herb highly valued for its distinct aroma and medicinal properties.
The...
Using ancient DNA recovered from a fossil bone from New Zealand’s South Island, scientists from Harvard University and elsewhere have generated a draft...
Madagascar is the most plausible center of origin for the iconic baobabs, also known as upside-down trees, or the tree of life, according to new research.
The...
The northern population of the giant hummingbird (Patagona gigas) stays in the high Andes year-round while the southern population migrates from sea level...
An international team of scientists has created the tree of life for almost 8,000 (about 60%) genera of flowering plants (angiosperms). This achievement...
Enterobacter bugandensis is primarily found in clinical specimens including the human gastrointestinal tract.
Illustrative workflow showcasing the process...
Tardigrades can survive remarkable doses of ionizing radiation, up to about 1,000 times the lethal dose for humans. How they do so is incompletely understood....
