Genetic Analysis Could Reveal Origin Of Ivory
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Scientists led by Samuel Wasser of the University of Washington collected manure samples in areas inhabited by African elephants. The geneticists isolated DNA from the manure and transferred it into the database.
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Analysis of bones in the cathedral of Seville in southern Spain leaves open the possibility that they are those of the explorer Christopher Columbus, a lead
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Similar to modern humans The continuing analysis of samples of neanderthal DNA have revealed that some of them had ginger hair.â¦
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Unleashing a new kind of DNA analyzer on a 38,000-year-old fragment of fossilized Neanderthal bone, scientists have reconstructed a portion of that creature's genetic code -- a technological tour de force that has researchers convinced they will soon know the entire DNA sequence of the closest...
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Analyzing the DNA of elephants may help trace the origins of ivory being sold illegally, information researchers hope will help foil such trade.
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It&#39;s like doing cold-case detective work on elephants, but University of Washington scientist Samuel Wasser has devised an innovative method for pinpointing the DNA fingerprints of poached elephant tusks.
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A rapid technique for isolating DNA in hair provides a new route to study the genetics of extinct creatures.
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Can the long-extinct mammoth be resurrected through the alchemy of modern biology?
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Scientists believe they may have found the remains of an extinct species of ape that would be the last common ancestor humans shared with chimpanzees, gorillas and other primates during a dig in Spain.
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A team of scientists says it has found evidence in three wrist bones that an extinct group of people were members of a distinct species.
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A group of researchers has re-created with remarkable accuracy part of the genome of the common ancestor of all placental mammals, a small shrew-like creature that prowled the forests of what is now Asia more than 80 million years ago.
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The remains of a primate that could be the ancestor of humans and all the great apes is discovered.
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The earliest-known human ancestors to migrate out of Africa possessed a surprising mix of human-like and primitive features, according to scientists who studied remains dug up at a fossil-rich site in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
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NEW YORK  - In a new study, researchers  present molecular evidence to show that malaria parasites in  Africa that are resistant to the drug pyrimethamine actually  originated in southeast Asia.
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MODERN human beings may have wiped out two species of our closest relatives 25,000 years ago, possibly deliberately. The new research, by scientists at the University of Utah, raises the possibility that we
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In the continuing debate over the origin of the extinct âlittle peopleâ of Indonesia, a team of scientists says it has found evidence that these people were members of a distinct species.
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In the search for a missing  evolutionary link to modern whales, scientists have come up  with an unlikely land cousin -- a raccoon-sized creature with  the body of a small deer.