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Leeches are DNA-bloodhounds in the jungle

Researchers have developed a new and revolutionary, yet simple and cheap, method for tracking…

42 researchers: This is how we halt the loss of biodiversity

A number of researchers from Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate together with a total o…

Sturdy Scandinavian conifers survived Ice Age

New research shows that some Scandinavian conifers survived the inhospitable ice age climate likely…

Scientists turn to protein clues to recreate mammoth DNA

For the first time ever scientists have been able to work backwards by using 126 proteins from a…

A lake fauna in a shot glass

Danish research team leads the way for future biodiversity monitoring using DNA traces in the…

Unraveling the causes of the Ice Age megafauna extinctions

Was it humans or climate change that caused the extinctions of the iconic Ice Age mammals?…

Tracing the first North American hunters

An astonishing new chapter has been added to North American prehistory with research showing that…

Aboriginals get new history

New reserach from the Willerslev group show, that the Aboriginal Australians were the first…

Waking the dead

For the first time an ancient genome has been reconstructed in detail. The innovative technique can…