The shortfin mako shark is on the brink of extinction due to overfishing, yet genetic analysis reveals that Atlantic ...

By contrast, groups such as insects, ray-finned fishes and dicotyledonous plants (one of the two groups of flowering plants) showed no notable average change in genetic diversity. Although the ...

Genetic diversity within many species is declining ... For example, birds were more impacted by land-use change, and fish by harvesting, the study found. One-fifth of the species analyzed are ...

By Kristine Sabillo Genetic diversity within many species is declining globally, according to a recently published study.

Officials with the California Department of Fish & Wildlife say that as part of a broader initiative to expand the release ...

The giant salamanders spend most of their lives nearly invisible under rocks in streams, which has made it difficult to ...

Research conducted by an international team and led by biologists at the University of Kentucky has found that the ability to ...

In this forest thick with trees up to 600 years old lives the southernmost population of the California condor (Gymnogyps ...

In January 2025 a paper published in Current Biology (Ghezelayagh et al. 2025) explained that genetic analysis demonstrated that snail darters (Percina tanasi) represented a population of the more ...

Fragmentation and isolation can cause inbreeding and reduced genetic diversity. This can lead to inbreeding depression ... In June 2019 we petitioned the California Fish and Game Commission to list ...