A female Asian elephant calf was born Feb. 2 to mother Nhi Linh and father Spike at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and ...

While most animals manage to avoid inbreeding through scent recognition or by leaving their packs, others (such as those ...

Orange County school board votes 6-2 to keep controversial children's book "Do Animals Fall In Love?" with animal mating ...

Research into hibernating animals reveals that memory lives in the cell and life is defined by the persistence of embodied information.

These “walking sharks” can lay eggs without spending extra energy, rewriting what scientists thought they knew about reproduction.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biology have discovered a remarkably streamlined strategy for developmental ...

“Under environmental stress, many species will choose between survival and reproduction, but the epaulette shark might be ...

Epaulette sharks can reproduce without any measurable increase in energy use, stunning researchers who expected egg-laying to ...

For a small number of animals, reproduction marks a biological endpoint rather than a stage in an ongoing life cycle. Death follows mating with such consistency that it can be predicted within a ...

As global temperatures continue to rise, scientists are working to understand how warming affects the planet’s carbon cycle. A new study published in Biocontaminant reveals that higher temperatures ...

Hydrogen sulfide (H₂S) is a colorless gas with a distinct rotten egg odor. It occurs naturally in many industries, including manure storage, oil and gas operations, sewage treatment, tank cleaning, ...