As koalas in southern Australia have grown from a few hundred to almost half a million, the marsupials show signs of regaining lost genetic variation.

A potted scarlet monkeyflower would die within a few days without water. But multiple natural populations of the species ...

Koalas’ population comeback may be doing more than boosting numbers—it could also be rebuilding their lost genetic diversity.

Conservationists saved the fuzzy creatures in Victoria, Australia. Now, the animals are showing remarkable signs of genetic recovery ...

A large-scale genomic study of koalas across eastern Australia has found that populations that went through severe ...

A new study published in Science is challenging long-held assumptions about how we measure genetic risk in endangered species. Researchers analyzed whole genomes from hundreds of koalas, finding that ...

For the first time in the world, BSIP and ZSI are attempting to sequence the whole nuclear genome of this extinct Indian big ...

Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time ...

Genetics helped scarlet monkeyflower rebound after California’s megadrought — a real‑world example of rapid evolution.

For more than 50 years, scientists have been freezing living cells from endangered species. Here’s how the Frozen Zoo® is ...

Surprising animal behaviors, from birds to amphibians, are revealing deep biological processes. Scientists are uncovering how viruses manipulate cells, how the immune system balances defense, and how ...