Researchers show that ozone levels, such as those found in many places on hot summer days today, destroy the sex pheromones of fruit fly species. As a result, some natural mating boundaries maintained ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a cool, starry night six years ago, a young scientist crept barefoot across dunes in the Namib Desert in southern Africa. With ...

The ocean is home to a vast array of different animals, each with its own traits. These include different forms of mating, ...

Mating between different species has often been considered an evolutionary dead end, but a study in longwing butterflies suggests that such hybridization could underlie the origins of a new species.

As seas heat up, female angelsharks are prioritizing survival over reproduction, leaving their male counterparts waiting alone at breeding sites. In the warming waters of the Canary Islands, female ...

Quick Take With sloths, the females are the ones responsible for mating calls. Three-toed sloth mating calls are often described as high-pitched screams or shrill whistles. These calls travel long ...

Love is complicated enough for humans, but in the animal kingdom, courtship can get downright bizarre as you’re about to see in the videos of the strangest animal mating rituals below. From underwater ...

A new study has found that chemical additives in everyday plastic might be stopping – or, at best, interrupting – the reproductive habits of a shrimp-like species that is key to the marine food chain.