Reproduction in the animal world does not always follow a fixed script. In several species, individuals shift their ...

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Nature does not reward politeness, and being a male or female doesn't change that rule either. Across the animal kingdom, the ...

Nature is full of wonders, and some of the most amazing surprises come from how animals reproduce. While most of us think that having babies always requires a male and a female, that’s not true for ...

For the first time, scientists have used genetic engineering to trigger ‘virgin birth’ in female animals that normally need a male partner to reproduce. Previously, scientists have generated young ...

Assisted reproductive technology (ART) is increasingly being used to facilitate conception in both clinical and veterinary medicine. Infertility rates are on the rise amongst the global human ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Successful conservation interventions have helped mountain gorilla populations recover from 620 in 1989 to more than 1,000 today. However, mountain ...

During mammalian reproduction, millions of sperm undertake a journey that only one will finish. This journey to fertilization has been commonly viewed as a race: a sea of sperm competing to get to the ...