Octopuses have a few characteristics that make them stand out as one of the most intelligent mollusks in the ocean. These ...

Aphid-hunting wasps can reproduce with or without sex, challenging previous assumptions. This unique flexibility could boost ...

Goliath, a 517-pound Galapagos tortoise and the oldest animal at Zoo Miami, celebrated his 135th birthday and became a father for the first time, zoo officials announced in a post on Facebook.

A South Florida zoo's oldest resident celebrated his 135th birthday and his first Father's Day on Sunday.Goliath, a 517-pound ...

In the oceans, there’s an infinite variety of biological experiments on display. Curious, keen-eyed scuba divers will ...

T urns out, it's not just chromosomes that determine sex during fetal development. While we've long believed that an embryo's ...

Iron deficiency in pregnant mice may lead to the development of ovaries in a small proportion of offspring carrying XY ...

Parental separation in humans can deeply affect children. But in another monogamous pair-bonding species, it has no such ...

Iron deficiency disrupts a sex-determining pathway in mice — plus, research highlighting the role that small-scale fishers ...

Mothering and bonding represent fundamental aspects of survival and development in domestic mammalian species. The mother-young interaction immediately after parturition is a critical event where the ...