A new fossil discovery in Canada is rewriting part of the story of how animal life began. The remains of creatures that lived ...

A study has found that the reason why the evolution of the first animals to appear on Earth was delayed for over 10 million years was due to their reproductive methods. Early animals reproduced by ...

Temperature affects nearly every part of an animal's day-to-day existence. Biologists have, for good reason, spent a huge amount of time trying to understand how animals can survive in the climates in ...

Imagine if humans could do that—no need for a partner or complicated dating processes. Just think of the possibilities! wink, wink. Cloning in animals refers to asexual reproduction, where an organism ...

We take it for granted that humans find it more difficult to conceive as they grow older. But our recent study, which analyzed data from 157 animal species, found that male reproductive aging seems to ...

Plastic waste in the water might be stopping -- or interrupting -- some shrimp-like creatures from reproducing. In a unique study, the ability of 'shrimp like' creatures to reproduce successfully was ...

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The common fruit fly normally needs a mate to reproduce. But scientists tinkering with its genes found the ones that can induce parthenogenesis, or virgin birth. For the first time, scientists ...

We take it for granted that humans find it more difficult to conceive as they grow older. But our recent study, which analysed data from 157 animal species, found that male reproductive ageing seems ...