Some male animals may evolve weak immune responses to transmit diseases. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- In the battle of the sexes, sexually transmitted diseases may sometimes be ...

Many mountain gorillas keep living - vigorous and socially engaged - for a decade or more beyond the years of reproduction.

New research from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the University of Turku reveals that female mountain gorillas, like humans and a handful of other mammals, can live long ...

Across the animal kingdom, males and females rarely live the same length of time and this difference has fascinated ...

Life cycles require the creation of an autonomous individual, that individual’s growth and that individual’s reproduction In sexual reproduction, gametes containing a single set of chromosomes combine ...

Reproduction is a normal part of life, and while sex might seem like a quick and straightforward process for humans, that’s not always the case in the animal kingdom. Some animals reproduce in rougher ...

New research reveals that mosquito reproduction is driven by female control. Although, some mosquito species have evolved ...

As a great queen once sang in 2011, “women run the world.” This is true even in the animal kingdom, where females often lead the group. From insects to apex predators, female-led species are strong, ...

I can’t predict the legal fate of abortion in the coming years, but there is one thing I am certain of from my studies of the animal world as an evolutionary biologist. Women won’t stop fighting for ...

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