Females with more potential mates can produce offspring with fewer harmful mutations, helping populations become more ...

For a small number of animals, reproduction marks a biological endpoint rather than a stage in an ongoing life cycle. Death follows mating with such consistency that it can be predicted within a ...

Animals are more likely to mate in warmer environments, a study analyzing the impact of climate change on reproductive behavior has found. Looking at the impact of temperature changes on 22 species ...

Plants and animals have evolved all sorts of ways to make themselves more appealing to potential mates—including colorful feet, flamboyant feathers, complex mating dances and sexual deception. Many ...

In the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, researchers from the University of East Anglia have captured something never before documented—a black-coated jaguar mating in the wild with a spotted jaguar.

Manatees confirmed mating in Mississippi waters for first time ...