In the sun-dappled hills of Europe, a hidden drama unfolds among the smallest of creatures. The Iberian harvester ant, Messor ...

Data now show that, in the absence of nearby M. structor colonies, M. ibericus queens can clone male M. structor ants by ...

Worker ants perform important tasks like gathering food, taking care of eggs and larvae and nest building. However, some ...

Despite being a staple food for millions, the genetic secrets of the sweet potato have remained a mystery to scientists...

A 90,000-year-old finger bone unearthed in Siberia belonged to Denny—the only known first-generation hybrid of Neanderthal ...

DNA research reveals an unexpected hybrid of cattle and bison once roamed the Earth — but while the cheekily dubbed Higgs bison is a new discovery for science, ancient cave art shows our ...

Sweet potato DNA decoded, revealing hybrid ancestry. Discovery aids future breeding and resilience. The sweet potato is a ...

Thousands of years ago, groups of ancient people made the dangerous journey across the icy land bridge of the Bering Strait ...

New research has thrown light on one of the world's greatest genetic oddities - a DNA marker which shows up in Europe and ...

It was supposed to be impossible. But the evidence just keeps mounting. A 140,000-year-old child’s skull discovered in Israel ...

A Leicester geneticist working with ape specialists at Twycross Zoo has developed a test which could help preserve highly vulnerable gibbon populations from extinction.

DNA doesn’t knot under stress. A new study finds it coils into plectonemes, reshaping models of genome mechanics. For decades ...