European fallow deer have faced a dramatic loss of genetic diversity since the last interglacial period. This was revealed by 120,000-year-old fossils from central Germany's Neumark-Nord site in ...

By Sean Mowbray More than a decade ago, conservationists began working to preserve a unique population of desert pampas cats ...

New research shows Cheviot goats are one of the UK's most genetically distinct goat populations. Led by Newcastle University, ...

Learn how animal scat reveals DNA insights on species, population size, diet, and movement—helping scientists protect ...

A groundbreaking multidisciplinary study reveals that the abundant mangrove fern Acrostichum aureum in Hainan Island harbors ...

Scientists have uncovered how butterfly wing patterns form, revealing that a few key genes and gene regulation control ...

The majority of genetic studies focus on people of European descent, which limits the understanding of how genes influence health in other populations. Now researchers at the Perelman School of ...

Before species go extinct, their populations often shrink and become isolated. Healthy populations tend to have a large gene pool with many genetic variants circulating. But the path to extinction ...

For fifty years, the Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute has protected one of the world’s richest reservoirs of crop diversity while helping shape global debates ...