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Across northern Australia, freshwater crocodiles are dying in droves, with some populations down by 70%. That's because the animals are eating a kind of super-poisonous toad that humans brought to the ...

Geneticists have discovered a previously unknown lineage of wild goats over ten millennia old. The new goat type, discovered from genetic screening of bone remains and referred to as 'the Taurasian ...

Indentation of several goat hooves in a brick from the archaeological site of Ganj Dareh. (Credit: The 'Tracking Cultural and Environmental Change Project') The DNA samples were sourced from the ...

Geneticists from Trinity College Dublin, together with a team of international collaborators, have discovered a previously unknown lineage of wild goats over ten millennia old. The research was ...