Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Using DNA to solve a crime is not a new concept — but using tree DNA certainly is. The United States Department of Agriculture's ...

WILLOW SPRINGS, Mo. (KY3) — Investigators turned to the DNA from a tree to solve a theft of black walnut trees in the Mark Twain National Forest. In October 2019, law enforcement began investigating ...

Scientists sequenced the parasitic plant Pilostyles aethiopica that lives inside of other plants and is only visible when it flowers. DNA sequencing has reclassified the group in which this plant sits ...

Deep in the night on August 4, 2018, a trio of timber cutters bushwhacked into a steep valley thick with brush, wearing headlamps and carrying a chainsaw, gas can, and a slew of felling tools. Their ...

Seeking to stop a rapist, veteran DNA detective CeCe Moore found herself fighting a battle among the trees—family trees, that is. And as a result of her meticulous mystery-solving acumen, Utah can ...