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Former UW golfer C.T. Pan survived the cut and is still among the field competing for the U.S. Open this weekend.

To stop elephant slaughter in Africa, zoologist Sam Wasser spent years extracting DNA from elephant dung and tissue. Much of the world's poached ivory, he discovered, comes from just three places.

The root cause of why we get less sleep now than our ancestors could come down to a very simple reason: artificial light.

UW biologist Samuel Wasser's pioneering work is helping stop illegal ivory trade that's decimating the African elephant population.

Investigators who collected DNA from the tusks of slain elephants have identified two large areas where the slaughter has been occurring

Most illegal ivory comes from animals killed in two areas in Africa: Tanzania and a protected area that spans Gabon, Republic of Congo, Cameroon and the Central African Republic.

The key to saving elephants from poachers could be locked up in the animals' DNA, according to the results of a new study.

Most illegally poached African elephant ivory can be traced back to just two areas of Africa, research shows.

Biologists estimate the business kills roughly one out of every ten African elephants each year.

Biology Professor Keiko Torii and her team have identified a mechanism that some plant cells use to receive complex and contradictory messages from their neighbors.