Some animals are capable of parthenogenesis, a reproductive process in which females produce offspring without fertilization.

Recent research from the UK Biobank shows that menopause is linked to adverse mental health outcomes and lower brain volume.

When a nuclear disaster empties a landscape of people, nature doesn’t politely wait for instructions. It moves in. After the ...

When people talk about saving wildlife, they often focus on numbers. Conversations center on how many deer live in a forest, ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...

When many mammals are sleeping during the winter, American beavers are actively courting, mating, and rearing offspring.

The distinctive sound horses produce when they whinny is created by combining low and high pitch sounds together, like ...

Greenville County Animal Care and the Greenville Humane Society will team up to spay and neuter 500 feral cats within two days.

Something unusual is happening out in the wild in Australia. Some birds are genetically one sex but look and act like the other. Scientists looked at five species: the Australian magpie, laughing ...

The wrinkly rodent barely seems to age and appears almost impervious to cancer, heart disease, and mental decline. Can these astounding abilities be adapted for humans?

Scientists were baffled over how eels reproduced for thousands of years – leading to the belief they spontaneously spawned ...

Old Sturbridge Village is a completely different animal, sprawling across 200 acres of Massachusetts countryside that’s been ...