A multiyear investigation pieced together ancient DNA from strains of the plague, bringing together researchers from across ...

A new scientific discovery has uncovered secrets of the Black Death plague that is thought to have killed tens of millions ...

A sudden freeze on U.S. conservation funding is sending shockwaves through efforts to combat the illegal wildlife trade, a ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...

The Black Death remains the single deadliest pandemic in recorded human history. The post Single gene evolution helped Black ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to ...

Alterations to a single gene in the plague bacterium's genome have shed light on a method the germ has used to survive and ...

A small genetic change makes the bacterium that caused the plague less fatal but possibly more transmissible, allowing for ...

A researcher secured the first-ever scientific observation of a subalpine woolly rat that had eluded scientists for decades.

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Only three venomous snakes live in the wild in New York: the timber rattlesnake, the Eastern massasauga and the Northern ...