DNA Sequencing to help conservation
The journal Nature is voicing support for a massive project to sequence the DNA of every plant and animal on earth. The Earth BioGenome Project launched earlier ...
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DNA helps track ivory poachers
A team of researchers say they have a novel approach to tracking down elephant poachers, the New York Times reports. Samuel Wasser, director of the Center for ...
Scientists set out to map genomes of 1.5 million species
An international network of biologists is embarking on a decade-long effort to map the genomes of over a million complex life forms in an effort to benefit wildlife ...
Ravens turn evolution on its head
Two lineages of the common raven (Corvus corax) in western North America have been fusing for thousands of years, researchers found, in what they say is one of the ...
Last remaining ‘wild’ horses not so wild after all
The stocky horses of central Asia known as Przewalski’s horses were long believed to be the only truly “wild” horses in the world — the ancestors of the ...
eDNA – Not just for fisheries biologists anymore – from The Wildlife Professional
Not all field sampling days are filled with summer sun and hiking through alpine meadows, but this one was, and it was just about as good as they come. The sun was ...
Mystery of WNS spread solved using DNA sequencing
In March 2016, a little brown bat found sick near North Bend, Washington, tested positive for white-nose syndrome (WNS), an invasive disease caused by the fungus ...
Scat: The first step in conserving Mesoamerican jaguars
Rare and elusive wildlife species such as jaguars can be tricky to study in the wild, especially when it comes to genetics. But noninvasive scat sampling has ...
Earth had extra giraffe species all along
Earth boasts four separate species of giraffe, not one, as scientists formerly believed, according to new research. To untangle the giraffe lineage, researchers ...
WSB study: Citizen scientists dart cougars for population study
Hunters armed with biopsy darts may be the key to assessing cougar populations, according to a new study. Cougars (Puma concolor) live solitary lives in widely ...