Brown-and-white giant pandas are distinct coat color mutants found exclusively in the Qinling Mountains of China.
Qi Zai, the only brown panda living in...
Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have discovered that two distantly related model plants, Arabidopsis thaliana and the tomato (Solanum lycopersicum),...
This stability exists despite the incredible diversity seen today in wing patterns, sizes, and caterpillar forms across over 160,000 species globally,...
The hindbrain of both sea lampreys and humans is built using an extraordinarily similar molecular and genetic toolkit, according to new research led by...
Biologists from Altos Labs-Cambridge Institute of Science, the University of Cambridge and elsewhere have found that a retrovirus-derived genetic element...
Researchers at CSIRO have sequenced the first genome of the night parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis), one of the world’s rarest and most elusive birds.
The...
Homo sapiens associated with the Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician culture were present in central and northwestern Europe long before the extinction...
Tardigrades, also known as water bears, can tolerate high doses of radiation, low-oxygen environments, desiccation, and both high and low temperatures...
Researchers from the Istituto di Genomica Applicata and elsewhere have released an improved genome assembly for Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica), a hybrid...
New research led by University of Goettingen scientists provides evidence that the first multicellular streptophytes likely lived about a billion years...
Woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) in mainland Alaska overlapped with the region’s first people for at least 1,000 years. However, it is unclear...
Researchers in China have mapped the entire genome of Chiridota heheva, a species of sea cucumber collected at a depth of 2,428 m during a submarine trip...
Giant bacteria are intriguing, underexplored biological enigmas. Many well-studied giants use abundant internal small-molecule stores and/or light to satisfy...
The mouse is the most commonly used vertebrate experimental model in neuroscience research, and the new atlas paves the way for a greater understanding...
The Long Interspersed Element-1 (LINE-1) retrotransposon is an ‘ancient genetic parasite’ that has written around one third of the human genome through...
Chia (Salvia hispanica) is one of the most popular nutrition-rich foods and pseudocereal crops of the mint family Lamiaceae. Chia seeds are a rich source...
When the ancestors of modern Eurasians migrated out of Africa and interbred with Eurasian archaic hominins, namely Neanderthals and Denisovans, DNA of...
In their new research, scientists at Texas A&M University developed a highly contiguous chromosome-level reference genome for the North American bison...
New research led by Texas A&M University and the University of Missouri scientists explains how cats, including domestic cats, lions, tigers, Geoffroy’s...
