Tag: DNA

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 domesticated horse....

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...

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 Pseudogymnoascus destructans, or Pd....

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 allowed researchers to...

Earth boasts four separate species of giraffe, not one, as scientists formerly believed, according to new research. To untangle the giraffe lineage, researchers analyzed DNA from giraffes across Africa, including...

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 dispersed territories, and it’s...

Catherine Driscoll was hiking with her father in the Never Summer Mountain Range of the Rocky Mountains. They were collecting bighorn sheep’s fecal pellet samples to study their genetic variation,...

Determining bee population numbers is as challenging as determining stock market trends, according to Douglas Yu, an associate professor at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom and...

A new discovery related to Hawaii’s only living native land mammal might mean some revisions regarding how it’s protected under the Endangered Species Act. In a recent study published in...

In a first-ever genomics study of black bears across their North American range, researchers have determined where they come from and how closely different populations are related to one another....