In Europe, relicts of other groups can be found in local populations along the Mediterranean Sea. Here we provide evidence that these ‘relicts’ occupied post-glacial Eurasia first and were ...

It's a relict of times past. But relicts represent windows, providing narrow glimpses into barely understood times. Just a few weeks ago, for example, when the northern autumn was still only a ...

New research describes how populations and communities known as climate relicts can help scientists understand how ecological communities are affected by climate change. While hiking through the ...

The Bohemian waxwing, is found in North America and Europe and the Japanese waxwing, in Asia. These distinctive birds have no close relatives and are considered relicts. A relict is a "persistent ...

As the climate now warms even more, climate relicts have a lot to teach us about how to manage biodiversity. Check it out. [Update: bad link to Yale e360 fixed] ...

In a new study published in PNAS, researchers have extracted the first ancient DNA from Caribbean parrots, which they compared with genetic sequences from modern birds. Working with fossils and ...

We all have our favorites in nature. For some, it's a mirror-calm lake at sunrise. For others, a field of blooming sunflowers. For me, it's always been pine trees. I pine for those pines — the ...