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• Woolly mammoth task: Critter's DNA mapped
... instead of bone, giving biologists a new method to dig into ancient DNA. Think of it as CSI Siberia, said Schuster. That different technique — along with soaring improvements in genome sequencing and the still embryonic field of synthetic biology ...
• Scientists decipher kangaroo's DNA
The research is an important step in the understanding of genomes in general, said geneticist Bill Sherman, an associate professor of molecular ecology and conservation biology at the University of New South Wales. But another genetic researcher was ...
• Scientists solicit photos of polar bears in wild
Waterman, an associate professor of biology at the University of Central Florida, often camped out in frigid weather to study the bears, which are listed as "vulnerable" on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. She now spends most of her time in ...
• Plankton contribute to continental crackups
Volcanic eruptions also owe a debt to biology. Limestone — itself a rock born from the skeletons of ocean-going life — has been subducted into Earth's mantle for hundreds of millions of years. There it heats up until it partially melts, mixes with ...
• Our ancestors had floppy, flexible gibbon feet
... that our early ancestors had floppy, flexible feet," Vereecke said. "Although they didn't look like a gibbon, they likely had flexible feet and walked upright." The research is detailed in the Nov. 14 issue of the Journal of Experimental Biology.