Michigan’s only species of venomous snake is in trouble. Eastern massasauga rattlesnakes (Sistrurus catenatus) are becoming more isolated because of habitat fragmentation in the state, which is ...

It's not surprising that inbreeding leads to worse survival rates, said Meaghan Clark, a former MSU graduate student and lead ...

Michigan is home to a single species of venomous snake, and the isolated pockets of its populations are making it more likely it will go extinct. Researchers at Michigan State University found the ...

A juvenile Florida panther was was dead from a vehicle strike on a rural road. The death of the 2-year-old female panther ...

Researchers built detailed family trees of more than 1,000 snakes, captured and released over years of fieldwork. Their findings show inbred snakes were 13% less likely to produce surviving young and ...

Premise of the study: Invasive species are nonnative species that enter novel environments, establish sustained populations, and can negatively impact native species. Here we assess a potential ...

The French government and animal-rights groups have yet to agree where orcas Wikie, 24 and Keijo, 11 should be moved, leaving ...

We studied the effects of inbreeding depression on parasite infection in three species of endangered gazelles: Gazella cuvieri, G. dama, and G. dorcas. Coefficients of inbreeding were calculated for ...

What killed the last woolly mammoths? Researchers had long thought that inbreeding caused a genetic meltdown in the last mammoth population, but a new ancient DNA analysis says otherwise.

DNA from mammoth remains reveals the history of the last surviving population The mammoths of Wrangel Island purged a lot of harmful mutations before dying off.