In her debut work of nonfiction,‘Poking the Squid,’ Perrin Roosevelt Ireland, artist-in-residence at the New York Aquarium, ...

A new study of wild bats reveals that an animal's immune system is shaped by more than its need to fight infections. Researchers from the University of Maryland have found that sex, age and ...

Tue, Jun 30, 2026 A hiker has tragically died after she was attacked by an alligator while cooling off in a river in Florida.

Humans and great apes have been giggling in similar ways since branching off the evolutionary tree, a new study suggests. How do we ...

Busy Philipps and Amber Tamblyn answered questions about animal mating rituals at a June 11 event for Perrin Roosevelt ...

The world’s life-forms reproduce sexually in a bewildering variety of ways, even though scientists still aren’t sure why they ...

When I taught introductory and advanced courses on animal behavior, many students woke up when I talked about the sex lives of a wide variety of animals. While there were a good number of books that ...

"Love makes fools of all of us," wrote 19th-century novelist William Makepeace Thackeray. A moment spent watching the pigeons at your local park suggests he was right: males with puffed-up, shimmering ...

Most animals require both a male and a female to reproduce. But a surprising number of species can occasionally bypass that rule entirely through a rare process known as parthenogenesis, often called ...