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A dog from the K9 Unit undergoing training with test bags that resemble luggage bags on a conveyer belt.

In Singapore, a forensics lab wields CSI-like tech against wildlife traffickers

Claire Turrell 20 May 2022

As tiger numbers in Nepal and India grow, their freedom to roam shrinks

Abhaya Raj Joshi, Sahana Ghosh 13 May 2022
ransgenic zebrafish expressing different fluorescent colours.

GM fish engineered to glow in the dark are found in Brazil creeks

Sue Branford 6 Apr 2022

World’s biggest tropical crop bank opens in Colombia, taking food research high tech

Liz Kimbrough 18 Mar 2022

Study finds major brands selling cat food that contain protected sharks

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Mar 2022

In Nepal, a messy breakup with hybrid seeds is good news for organic farming

Johan Augustin 18 Feb 2022
Toco

Winds of change: Detecting species from airborne DNA just got real

Carolyn Cowan 11 Feb 2022
White handed gibbon

Malaysia’s white-handed gibbons may be two subspecies, not one, study shows

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 9 Feb 2022

Top 15 species discoveries from 2021 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 21 Dec 2021
Large tiger sharks overwinter in the Bahamas and migrate thousands of kilometers into open ocean in the summer, but they remain in the Atlantic. Photo credit: © Christopher Vaughan-Jones

Geneticists have identified new groups of tiger sharks to protect

Graycen Wheeler 30 Nov 2021

DNA assessment confirms Gabon as last stronghold of forest elephants

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Nov 2021

In Mozambique, mystery of tuskless elephant points to poaching as the culprit

Malavika Vyawahare 11 Nov 2021
wedgefish

Study shines a light on Indonesia’s murky shark fishery and trade

Carolyn Cowan 5 Nov 2021
The aquatic life of the San Pedro Mártir River in Tabasco, Mexico, finds refuge in the submerged roots of the red mangrove forests. Image by Octavio Aburto.

Inland mangroves reveal a tumultuous climatic past — and hint at our future

John Cannon 14 Oct 2021
Western spotted skunk (Spilogale gracilis). Image by Robby Heischman courtesy of the Field Museum.

Pepé Le New: Meet the acrobatic spotted skunks of North America

Liz Kimbrough 15 Sep 2021
Paleoart

Low genetic diversity is part of rhinos’ long-term history, study says

Carolyn Cowan 31 Aug 2021
Grizzly bear

For monitoring mammals, eDNA boasts ‘killer feature’ over other methods

Carolyn Cowan 21 Jul 2021

Sumatran rhinos show low inbreeding — but when it happens, collapse is quick

Carolyn Cowan 29 Apr 2021

Human impacts leave reefs short on sharks and long on moray eels

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Feb 2021

Whale of a find: Scientists spot beaked whale believed to be a new species

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Dec 2020
A bison in the holding pen. Image © Clay Bolt/WWF.

Hope and peace: Bison return to the Rosebud reservation

John Cannon 10 Dec 2020
The entrance to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway, a remote archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Photo by Subiet via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Through war, wildfire and pandemic, the world’s seed vaults hold strong

Liz Kimbrough 8 Dec 2020

Brazilian frog believed ‘extinct’ for 50+ years, found with eDNA testing

Peter Yeung 6 Oct 2020

Sharks nearby? A bottle of seawater can hold the answer, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Aug 2020

A genetic map hopes to trace rescued chimps back to their homes

Hannah Thomasy 17 Aug 2020

Say hello to Madagascar’s newest mouse lemur, a pint-sized primate

Malavika Vyawahare 3 Aug 2020

Bison: (Back) home on the range

John Cannon 10 Jun 2020

Land scarcity and disease threaten a multifaceted indigenous crop in Ethiopia

Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 19 May 2020

Endangered bats are evolving to fight off an exotic fungal disease

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 May 2020

DNA detective work reveals where in the ocean shark fins came from

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 May 2020

Bold project hopes to DNA barcode every species in Costa Rica

Jeremy Hance 27 Apr 2020

Philippine fruit bats may be entirely new species of their own, DNA suggests

Mongabay.com 17 Feb 2020

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