A spider on the Canary Islands lost half its DNA but gained more genetic variety. Scientists say this changes how we ...

The Atlas blue butterfly, which is native to Morocco and Algeria, is an intriguing case study for genetic scientists because ...

Of all the myriad weird and wonderful species that populate this planet, it’s probably not the humble sweet potato that you’d pick as being the most mysterious. It may surprise you, therefore, to ...

In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented insight about the ancestry of a man who lived during the time when the first ...

Every organism's genome contains mutations that often have unknown biological effects. In partnership with Stanford ...