Life cycles require the creation of an autonomous individual, that individual’s growth and that individual’s reproduction In ...

Nature is full of evolutionary selflessness. From deep-sea octopuses to certain marsupials, there are animals and insects ...

A 62-year-old ball python at the Saint Louis Zoo laid viable eggs, defying expectations as she hadn't been with a male for ...

On islands, many plants rely on animals such as birds, bats and reptiles to disperse their seeds and help them grow in new ...

Nature has created some incredible partnerships between animals and bacteria. These tiny organisms live inside their hosts, ...

Love — or at least sex — was in the air of the small, windowless, biosecure room at the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas. Sixteen ...

Sex cells made from scratch could revolutionize human reproduction. But researchers are struggling to translate promising ...

LITTLE is known about the reproduction cycle of mumps virus. This seems strange, as some of the techniques available for influenza virus should be applicable to this virus, which is in many ways ...

Researchers who analyzed data from zoo animals found that it is not only genetics, but mating pressures that may determine ...

The epigenetic clock measures biological age and could help scientists assess the health of polar bears, dolphins, baboons ...

Blue is remarkably rare in nature because true blue pigments are almost non-existent in living organisms. Instead, most ...

New research from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the University of Turku reveals that female ...