You are more likely to hear about equine sarcoids and melanomas, horses can develop other types of cancer as well.

The endangered orange-bellied parrot has lost 62 per cent of its genetic diversity and can only be saved by breeding with another species or editing its genes, a study suggests.

A genetic mutation in horses that would typically halt protein production has become a molecular asset. Researchers at Johns ...

Track 1 of 14, “I Come With Mud,” opens the album and gently sets the stage for the poetic world the band operates within.

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Among the newly identified species is a pygmy pipehorse, a 4-centimeter (1.6-inch) master of camouflage found in Sodwana Bay, off the coast of South Africa in the Indian Ocean. It is the first ...

Mitochondrial DNA is only a small portion of the total DNA of a eukaryotic cell and in most species is solely inherited from the mother. In humans mitochondrial DNA contains approximately 16,600 ...

Ocean Census, the world’s largest collaborative effort to accelerate the discovery of marine life, reveals 866 newly-found marine species A global collaborative effort led by the Nippon ...

With an estimated 200 billion trillion stars in the observable universe, the existence of other technological species is highly likely, potentially even within our Milky Way galaxy. Join our Space ...

“At that moment, I knew immediately that the deep ocean must be a much more thriving habitat than we had imagined.” ...

All breeds of horses are members of the modern species Equus caballus, but experts believe that Friesians are actually descended from an ancient European species called Equus robustus. Unlike most ...