Kwiaht herpetologist Christian Oldham is documenting the seasonal activities of both populations, and both prey and snake DNA samples are being analyzed at Kwiaht’s Lopez Island laboratory.

By Shanna Hanbury A new species of parrot snake lay undetected for nearly nine years in a scientific collection in Brazil. It ...

The newly identified Snake River Plains ground squirrel was discovered to be a genetically distinct species after research and DNA analysis.

The Snake River Plains ground squirrel was previously ... but McLean and his team of researchers discovered there was a difference in their DNA. "It was only through sequencing their DNA, the ...