Claire Asher

A deadly fungus that causes skin lesions in snakes has been detected in wild European species for the first time.

Last week, a study made headlines worldwide with its claim that the CRISPR-Cas9 genome-editing technique is more error prone than expected. In response, some investors chose to sell their shares in CRISPR-based biotech firms and stock values dipped by up to 15 percent for some companies.

But do the findings in the latest CRISPR report justify all this panic?

Adaptations to terrestrial life could be the key to their success.

Ancient human DNA suggests that the first farmers moved across Europe and closely integrated with hunter-gatherers.

Scientists have built the most accurate wheat genome map yet, and discovered thousands of new genes.

Great apes and other wildlife are hunted and eaten as bushmeat across Central Africa, threatening dwindling populations and spreading disease, such as Ebola.

Intensive aquaculture favors increasingly virulent forms of certain fish-infecting parasites and pathogens, studies show.

Meltwater from one of Canada’s largest glaciers has been abruptly re-routed to flow southward instead of to the north, thanks to climate change.

Over the course of many millions of years, members of one beetle family have evolved to impersonate army ants at least a dozen separate times, adding to evidence that evolution is more predictable than once thought.