In the very heart of the ancient lands of Eurasia, a major scientific discovery has shed new light on one of the oldest and ...

Two separate research groups in the U.K. and Denmark have come up with the same idea for a study that could help save endangered species, and have gotten the same results. It involves sucking ...

New research shows ancient plague may have spread through livestock, not fleas, based on DNA from a 4,000-year-old sheep.

Studying endangered animal species without disturbing them and disrupting their natural habitat could be highly advantageous, ...

The Mediterranean Sea is home to some of the ocean's largest animals. Among the nine species of cetaceans commonly found ...

The droppings contain DNA, he thought, and perhaps, even after rain washes them away, some DNA might remain. And if it does ...

DENTON, Mont. -- An animal previously believed to be a wolf-dog hybrid is actually just a wolf, a DNA test revealed. "The lab compared the animal's DNA with thousands of other DNA samples from wolves, ...

This refers to DNA from animals that is found in the environment as a result of natural shedding. Think: dead skin, feces, ...

A Pennsylvania wildlife facility has confirmed that a mystery animal brought in weeks ago after it was found in the snow has now been determined to be a coyote. Volunteers for Wildlife Works said that ...