The small size and isolation of the endangered population of Southern Resident killer whales in the Pacific Northwest have led to high levels of inbreeding. This inbreeding has contributed to their ...

Illustration depicting Smilodon fatalis. (Corey Ford/Stocktrek Images/Getty Images) Whether waking up to a slobber-soaked ...

May 3 (UPI) --Biologists and conservation scientists have long been operating under the assumption that inbreeding should be avoided at all costs, but a new survey -- published Monday in the journal ...

As its name implies, the Devil's Hole pupfish lives in a truly hellish environment. Confined to a single deep limestone cave in Nevada's Mojave Desert, 263 of them live in water that hovers around 93 ...

critically endangered kākāpō (Strigops habroptilus). (Credit: Jake Osborne, image provided by Cell Genomics) The first ever genomic analysis of the critically endangered kākāpō, Strigops habroptilus, ...

SEATTLE — People have taken many steps in recent decades to help the Pacific Northwest’s endangered killer whales, which have long suffered from starvation, pollution and the legacy of having many of ...

Biologists have long known that inbreeding can be detrimental. Inbreeding results in less genetic variation, making species more vulnerable if changes occur that require them to adapt. Now we know ...

The world probably doesn’t need a super-sexed housefly. And creating one wasn’t Lisa Meffert’s intention, at least not at first. As a graduate student, she had set out to see if she could produce a ...

Researchers have compiled the first genome sequences of desert pupfish from the American Southwest, including the unique Devils Hole pupfish. The genomes of the 8 Devils Hole pupfish sequenced ...