A new study reveals that habitat fragmentation can lead to sudden "tipping points" where a species' genetic health ...
As koalas in southern Australia have grown from a few hundred to almost half a million, the marsupials show signs of ...
A new study published in Science is challenging long-held assumptions about how we measure genetic risk in endangered species ...
If you follow media coverage of koalas, you could be forgiven for feeling confused. Recent stories describe a “koala paradox” ...
Tree genome evolution is a fascinating area in the study of biodiversity and ecosystem stability. Trees, with their distinctive life history traits, such as ...
When a nuclear disaster empties a landscape of people, nature doesn’t politely wait for instructions. It moves in. After the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, entire ...
Understanding biological relationships is often critical when studying animal populations. Researchers have now developed a transformative approach that identifies stretches of DNA that two ...
Tracking the origin and evolution of human populations in Arabia / Jeffrey I. Rose and Michael D. Petraglia -- The Red Sea, coastal landscapes, and hominin dispersals / Geoff Bailey -- Pleistocene ...