A bizarre and ugly fish that has been around for hundreds of millions of years has been discovered to have the most DNA of any animal ever found. These South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa) ...

EMBARGOED UNTIL WEDNESDAY, 14. AUGUST 2024, 17:00 CEST (16:00 LONDON TIME, 11:00 US EASTERN TIME) Join us as we travel back in time! We have arrived in the Devonian period, some 420 to 360 million ...

The vampire squid is a creature straight out of a gothic horror film. It lurks in the deep-sea abyss, cloaked in dark, webbed ...

From a bat’s wings to an elephant’s cancer resistance, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at University of Utah Health are using animals’ unique traits to pinpoint regions of the human genome ...

The duck-billed platypus: part bird, part reptile, part mammal -- and the genome to prove it. An international consortium of scientists, led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, ...

"And particularly it's exciting because it's a plant.” New research shows that the genome size of this fork fern species… is estimated to be more than 50 times the size of a human genome. :: Ilia ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In less than 25 y, the field of animal genome science has transformed from a discipline seeking its first glimpses into genome sequences ...

Efforts to sequence the genomes of the world's animals tend to focus on those that most resemble humans with the work conducted almost entirely in the Global North, according to an analysis led by ...

Many of us are inherently interested in our ancestry—who are we and where did we come from? Stories centered on “the missing link” tend to draw public attention (spoiler alert: there is no one missing ...

By Will Dunham (Reuters) -Whether they are a Siamese, Persian, Maine Coon, or Domestic Shorthair, there are hundreds of ...

Some sea slugs take up chloroplasts from the algae that they consume into their cells. These chloroplasts retain their ability to perform photosynthetic activity within the animal cells for several ...

Grapes have long played a crucial role in human society, both modern and ancient. Especially when it comes to the production of wine, grapes have proved to be a valuable and popular crop. It was so ...