Museum bones holding tiny scraps of DNA were enough to rebuild two missing branches of the Galápagos tortoise family tree.

Tasia Fortune, a mother of four, was found dead "in a hanging position" on a tree behind a vacant home in Jackson on Aug. 3, ...

The United States Department of Agriculture's approval of a blight-resistant American chestnut is reviving hopes that this ...

Columnist Joshua Siskin for a reader looking for a “drought-tolerant, relatively quick growing and not too messy” tree to ...

Author of the Fighting Welsh, Andrew Sutton, takes a deep dive into the Welsh ancestry of the late, great Dolly Parton.

Every person alive carries between 0.5% and 1% of their genome from a hominin that has no name, no fossils, and no sequenced ...

Highlights of the 2026 event were the introduction of the new president, Donna Hickman, and the opening of the Detwiler ...

Tsushima leopard cats are an endangered species found only on this isolated island. The most recent government survey ...

In early August, Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society volunteers Judy Thompson, Gretchen Murray and Kathy Greene met ...

The American chestnut once dominated the Eastern woodlands. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Andrew Newhouse, an environmental biologist, about efforts to bring these trees back from the brink of extinction ...