Even within the world of egg-laying animals, there is an incredible variety of reproductive strategies. Some species mate before the female lays her eggs, ensuring they are fertilized internally, ...

Blue is remarkably rare in nature because true blue pigments are almost non-existent in living organisms. Instead, most ...

They recently discovered that Iberian harvester ant queens are able to produce offspring of a completely different species, ...

Across 1,000 species, males die younger than females—even in zoos. A global study shows biology, not just lifestyle, drives ...

Learn the key differences in appearance behavior and danger between these two snakes often confused in the wild.

Sexual behavior is one reason why female mammals typically live longer than their male counterparts, according to a new study ...

Rising ocean temperatures are shrinking baby lobsters, threatening Maine’s $2B fishery and raising new concerns for America’s seafood future.

The Gulf of Maine is warming faster than 99% of the world's oceans, raising concerns for its $2 billion-a-year American ...

Collaborative research by the University of Tokyo and RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research has led to the ...

Women usually live longer than men, and animals show the same pattern. Evolution, genes, and parenting explain why.

Scientists announced on Tuesday that they filmed for the first time ever a white shark swimming off the coast of Rhode Island ...

The efforts and shortcomings in dugong conservation hold broader lessons for the conservation of other marine species that demand intact ecosystems while being directly threatened by human activity ...