This video dives into the world of animals with the most unusual and astonishing breeding habits on Earth. Scientists reveal how each species evolved rituals and reproductive strategies unlike ...

The journal Science China Life Sciences published a study reported by Academician Hang Sun’s group from Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The research team demonstrated the ...

Unlike their relatives, individuals of the poison frog Allobates femoralis are not poisonous but are captivating due to their different behavioral profiles: They successfully reproduce with different ...

Distinguished by its unusual morphology and a reproductive system based on something called "sexual parasitism," the anglerfish represents a study in how life adapts to severe environmental ...

A Brazilian study described in an article published in the journal Salamandra evidences the versatility of amphibians in terms of reproductive modes: their eggs and larvae can develop in at least 74 ...

Cephalopods display some of the most diverse and elaborate reproductive strategies in the marine realm. Their mating systems encompass behaviours such as sexual mimicry, dynamic visual signalling, ...

At the base of mossy trees, deep in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan or nestled in the subtropical forests of Okinawa, grows what most might mistake for a mushroom—but it is actually a very ...

Which group of mammals has the more 'primitive' reproductive strategy -- marsupials, with their short gestation periods, or humans and other placental mammals, which have long gestation periods? For ...

Evolutionary theories of human sexuality have tended to describe people as generally preferring either short or long-term mating strategies. Hence, the idea that human sexuality falls on a continuum ...

One of the top science stories of 2012 (according to Discover magazine) was a study of fruit flies conducted by UCLA’s Patricia Gowaty and her colleagues. In their research labs, they tried (and ...