A spider on the Canary Islands lost half its DNA but gained more genetic variety. Scientists say this changes how we ...

In a few million years, the spider Dysdera tilosensis — a species endemic to the Canary Islands — has reduced the size of its ...

Boston Children's Hospital, along with Broad Clinical Labs and Roche Sequencing Solutions, has demonstrated that rapid ...

In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented insight about the ancestry of a man who lived during the time when the first ...

Of all the myriad weird and wonderful species that populate this planet, it’s probably not the humble sweet potato that you’d pick as being the most mysterious. It may surprise you, therefore, to ...