For more than 150 years, scientists have debated when and how the Colorado River first carved its way through the Grand ...

Environmental DNA from rivers worldwide reveals how climate boosts fish diversity—and how human activity is disrupting that ...

The DNA in a single cup of water can track wildlife, monitor pollution and survey pathogens in waterways and their ...

Museum samples from the USS Albatross. (Photo by John Whalen, Old Dominion University) At this year’s annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Baltimore, almost two dozen students and ...

Hidden within fish DNA are powerful genetic twists that may explain one of nature’s biggest mysteries: how new species form so quickly. In Lake Malawi, hundreds of cichlid fish species evolved at ...