Visitors to the Fernando de Noronha archipelago, located about 340 miles (545 kilometers) off the coast of Pernambuco in ...

Discoveries from the Isle of Wight have unveiled ancient shellfish fossils that highlight early parental care practices.

Successful reproduction presents a fundamental evolutionary paradox: the immune system must tolerate genetically foreign sperm and embryos while maintaining ...

Reproductive strategies among eukaryotes span a continuum from obligate sexual reproduction—where genetic material is reshuffled each generation—to strict asexuality, in which offspring are clonal ...

Which group of mammals has the more 'primitive' reproductive strategy -- marsupials, with their short gestation periods, or humans and other placental mammals, which have long gestation periods? For ...

The Chinese sturgeon (Acipenser sinensis) is the largest anadromous fish in the Yangtze River and is considered a critically endangered species with only one spawning ground. Additionally, it has ...

The first animals on Earth took millions of years to evolve, a slowness that surprises paleontologists. How to explain it ...

The journal Science China Life Sciences published a study reported by Academician Hang Sun’s group from Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The research team demonstrated the ...