Animal researchers must often capture, handle and transport animal subjects. These activities can negatively affect animals' overall health and well-being and may cause marked changes to measured ...

Discover the origin and purpose of the structures of living things, from why baboons have swollen bottoms to the ...

Some animals sport pompadours, mohawks, and toupees that look too perfectly styled to be natural. Meet eight creatures whose ...

Buying a primate should not be as simple as scrolling through social media. Yet a new report suggests that is exactly what is happening across the United States. Researchers documented more than 1,600 ...

New research across 1,176 species reveals why women live longer than men, and the most interesting thing isn't what you think ...

In the animal kingdom, fatherhood exists on a spectrum. Some species like grizzly bears or lions will leave after mating and ...

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

Kiyomasa, a 13-year-old western lowland gorilla at Japan's Higashiyama Zoo, has become an internet sensation after a video showed him sitting alone in a thoughtful pose following a reported ...

New leader of the National Academy of Sciences Neil Shubin warns: ‘a society that loses science loses the future’.

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In Second Nature, scientists theorize that Darwin couldn’t help but impose his own heterosexual ideations on animal reproduction, mainly that animals only copulate for the purposes of reproduction, ...