Recent research has uncovered a fascinating mechanism in the nematode worm C. elegans that could have profound implications ...

Product testing in Denmark has found traces of animal DNA that were not on the ingredient list -- although the majority were ...

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 ...

A gene that helped bowheads adapt to frigid Arctic waters also granted them extraordinary longevity. Could it help aging ...

From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...

A newly discovered protein from Earth's toughest animal is inspiring breakthrough therapies for cancer and cardiovascular ...

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, ...

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 ...

DNA testing has confirmed that the black bear killed in Arkansas earlier this month was not the animal that fatally attacked ...