A Neanderthal skull from Forbes' Quarry, Gibraltar. (AquilaGib/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) Genetic deterioration may not have been the major cause of Neanderthal extinction, new evidence suggests ...

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have catalogued hundreds of thousands of genetic variants linked to complex human traits and diseases, with more than 625,000 variant-trait associations across ...

A new international study led by researchers at the University of Oulu, Finland, shows that wolves living in different parts ...

Integrating case counts with genomic sequences quantifies real-time transmission advantages of viral variants.

In contrast to those who resided in Siberia, Neanderthals who lived in what's now Belgium and France shortly before the ...

THE Philippine eagle, the country’s national bird, is one of the largest and most powerful eagles in the world. Susceptible to habitat destruction and fragmentation, it is currently listed as ...

A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

Scientists studying Puerto Rico's shark fishery made an unexpected discovery: juvenile scalloped hammerheads being caught ...

Scientists hope the biobank will help reduce chlamydia infections in future koala populations, and act as a safety net for ...

Genetic factors primarily explain the link between parental and childhood BMI, with maternal obesity impacting birth weight ...

To prevent viruses from sickening or killing us—whether it's an individual case of hepatitis B or a COVID pandemic—it's ...

Scientists have found that the critically endangered Philippine eagle has exceptionally low genetic diversity, a discovery ...