The sparks of metal atoms may protect against double fertilization. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Whether you're a frog or a ...

Boulenger’s backpack frog uses one of the strangest reproductive strategies in the amphibian world. Females carry fertilized ...

MUCH of my time as a biologist has been spent looking through a microscope at the beginnings of individual lives, partly in an effort to understand a little of how animals develop from eggs, partly ...

Five years ago, researchers at Northwestern University made international headlines when they discovered that human eggs, when fertilized by sperm, release billions of zinc ions, dubbed “zinc sparks.” ...

PORTLAND, Ore. – A large, clawed frog is helping Oregon Health and Science University researchers better understand how the rare genetic disorder Fanconi anemia leads to DNA damage that typically ...