Scientists use changes in DNA as a type of clock to estimate how long two species have been separated. Researchers found that ...

Researchers analyzed fossils and DNA to get a big-picture view of sloth evolution and determine what drove their immense size ...

For example, forest elephants live in ... (Related: "Mammoths to Return? DNA Advances Spur Resurrection Debate.") The genomes of five distinct animals—the Asian elephant, African savanna ...

African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which ...

The science is clear: Asian elephants share 99.6% of their DNA with woolly mammoths. While the 0.4% difference might seem small, it’s an enormous challenge to bridge. Modern gene-editing tools ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A genetic study of Asian elephants in northern ... group collected samples from elephant dung in Cambodia's northern plains and extracted DNA. From the DNA they were ...

Asian elephants diverged from mammoths around 6.7 million years ago and share over 95% of their DNA. Colossal plans to ... difference in the mice is one example of the many gaps in our ...

By analyzing 50,000-year old DNA from Neanderthals, for example, we now know that some ... the mammoth’s closest living relative, the Asian elephant. Colossal proposes to do this to a small ...

A genetic study of Asian elephants in northern ... group collected samples from elephant dung in Cambodia's northern plains and extracted DNA. From the DNA they were able to identify individual ...