• Rare ‘baby dragons’ discovered in five new caves thanks to DNA https://www.newscientist.com/article/2120289-rare-baby-dragons-discovered-in-five-new-caves-thanks-to-dna/ 

• Surveying Europe’s Only Cave-Dwelling Chordate Species (Proteus anguinus) Using Environmental DNA (Vörös et al. 2017) http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0170945

News for Sigsgaard et al 2016, “Population characteristics of a large whale shark aggregation inferred from seawater environmental DNA” (posted 1/27/17):

• World’s largest fish traced by environmental DNA http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/worlds-largest-fish-traced-by-environmental-dna-1592683
• What scientists learned about whale sharks from the DNA they left behind in seawater http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-shark-seawater-dna-20161121-story.html
• Whale shark genetics revealed by water samples http://news.ku.dk/all_news/2016/11/whale-shark-genetics-revealed-by-water-samples/

News for Thomsen et al. 2016, “Environmental DNA from Seawater Samples Correlate with Trawl Catches of Subarctic, Deepwater Fishes:”

• Censusing fisheries: Where’s the catch? http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21710235-counting-sea-creatures-hard-there-now-new-way-do-it-wheres
• DNA secrets to life in the deep http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37989260
• Marine DNA reveals deep oceans’ biodiversity http://www.fis.com/fis/worldnews/worldnews.asp?l=e&country=0&special=&monthyear=&day=&id=88316&ndb=1&df=0

News for Kelly et al. 2016, “Genetic signatures of ecological diversity along an urbanization gradient”:

• Scientists sequence floating DNA along urban shorelines, find surprising amount of biological activity http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2016/10/03/Scientists-sequence-floating-DNA-along-urban-shorelines-find-surprising-amount-of-biological-activity/1831475526385/
• Coastal urbanization could boost biodiversity http://www.hcn.org/articles/coastal-urbanization-could-give-an-unexpected-boost-to-biodiversity