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The Chinese Pangolin is one of two species that researchers have now provided high-quality, nearly gapless genome sequences and analyzed these for information to aid in conservation of these animals. The Chinese Pangolin and the Malayan Pangolin, also studied here, are listed as critically endangered on the Red List of the IUCN.

World Pangolin Day celebrated with new genomes to aid the world’s most trafficked animal

Categories Life & Non-humans

Heather Huson racing in an Alaska Dog Mushers Association Challenge Series race in 2005 at the Jeff Studdard Sled Dog Race Track in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Genomics reveals sled dogs’ Siberian lineage

Categories Life & Non-humans

Artist's impression of Denisovan family near cave opening

Neanderthal DNA Reveals Clues to Their Extinction

Categories Life & Non-humans, Social Sciences

Using AI to scrutinize, validate theories on animal evolution

Categories Technology

Wrangel Island tusk

Last surviving woolly mammoths were inbred but not doomed to extinction

Categories Life & Non-humans

map of southern Africa

Iconic savanna mammals face genetic problems due to fences and roads

Categories Life & Non-humans

Pygmy blue whale

Scientists weigh up current status of blue whale populations around the world

Categories Life & Non-humans

Genomic analysis in snakes shows link between neutral, functional genetic diversity

Categories Technology

Whale bones on South Georgia Island.

DNA from discarded whale bones suggests loss of genetic diversity due to commercial whaling

Categories Life & Non-humans, Social Sciences

The core formula of our new inference method is shown. The image depicts a cliff painting, illustrating the population of human ancestor pull together to survive the unknown danger in the darkness during the ancient severe bottleneck.

Early ancestral bottleneck could’ve spelled the end for modern humans

Categories Life & Non-humans

Elephants that once threatened Rome could help save their descendants

Categories Bloggers

A breadfruit tree in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Photo by Nyree Zerega

Caribbean breadfruit traced back to Capt. Bligh’s 1791-93 journey

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Social Sciences

Caring Corals

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