Scientists at UC Santa Cruz have completed the first end-to-end genome of the iconic Pacific banana slug, a species ...

In this forest thick with trees up to 600 years old lives the southernmost population of the California condor (Gymnogyps ...

The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents has approved the establishment of the Center for Comparative Genomics in animal genetics.

DNA evidence has confirmed that killer whales in Australia hunted a white shark for its liver—marking the first recorded case ...

They appeared at dusk. The day was ending in a pink-and-yellow sky when a cub moved in the grass. Its mother appeared next, ...

Two giant pandas, Qing Bao and Bao Li, made their debut for the public at the Smithsonian National Zoo on Jan. 24.

In the long and storied history of earth, there have been five mass extinctions, the most famous, of course, being the ...

Tom Hill is a Massachusetts native who has spent the past 40 years fishing out of Gloucester, MA—America's oldest fishing ...

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