New research from James Cook University has made the extraordinary discovery that epaulette sharks can reproduce and lay eggs ...

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

Across the animal kingdom, reproduction is often portrayed as a triumph of survival, yet for some species, mating itself can be fatal. From insects to mammals, there are animals that knowingly, or ...

Pay attention, pets! You are getting an award show of your own. The inaugural Pet Lovers' Choice Awards will be held as a live event in Los Angeles on Feb. 24, followed by a primetime airing on ...

If you’re looking for free things to do with kids over their holiday break, there’s no shortage of fun activities in Dallas-Fort Worth. One holiday hot spot is NorthPark Center, which has free ...

The evolutionary origin of sperm can be traced back to a single-celled ancestor of all living animals. Almost all animals reproduce by having a single-celled stage of their life cycle, involving two ...

How do animals decide when to fight and when to walk, fly, slither, or swim away? Most research on animal conflict has focused on the short-term costs of single interactions, but a pair of behavioral ...

Chances are you’ve encountered some version of the “Ebbinghaus illusion,” in which a central circle appears to be smaller when encircled by larger circles and seems larger when surrounded by smaller ...

Dr Maria Santacà is a behavioral biologist who specializes in the study of animal cognition and perception. Her research at the Department of Behavioral & Cognitive Biology of the University of Vienna ...

Female mountain gorillas don’t simply fade after giving birth to their offspring. Many keep living – vigorous and socially engaged – for a decade or more beyond the years of reproduction, according to ...