The Trump administration has proposed sweeping revisions to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) that could significantly change how the nation protects its most vulnerable wildlife, raising alarms among ...

What Kind of Turtle Is in the Video? In his pond, Zak notices his fish are acting strange. That’s when he discovers a softshell turtle has taken up residence. The reptile seems to have come from a ...

This study addresses the phylogenetic relationships among Pistacia species by amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs). A total of 31 wild Pistacia accessions belonging to P. eurycarpa, P.

Canada’s most genetically distinct land animal is more cold-blooded than the country’s coins would have you believe. Far from a moose, beaver, or polar bear, a recent study published in the journal ...

High ranked species have no close national relatives and can embody up to a hundred million years of evolution shared with none other in the country. The study found that, overall, amphibians and ...

What is the 'most Canadian' animal? Spoiler: it's not the beaver, or the moose. A new study ranks species of terrestrial vertebrates in Canada by their level of Canadian evolutionary distinctness: the ...

What is the “most Canadian” animal? Spoiler: it’s not the beaver, or the moose. Published today in the journal The Canadian Field-Naturalist, the study from a team of Simon Fraser University and ...

Scientists from the UAB and Iowa State University have generated the genome assemblies of two hidden-neck turtles, unpublished until now. The results, which revealed a new three-dimensional structure ...

Well, not the kind of candy you buy in a sweets shop. Rather, they like fruit, which is rich in sugar. “We call it nature’s candy,” says Wei Gordon, a biologist at Menlo College. She was catching ...

Turtles are any of over 350 living species of reptiles in the order Testudines. Pennsylvania is home to 12 native turtle species, along with at least one invasive species. Read on to find out what ...