There are some strange mating rituals in the wild. Birds court through dance and song, and some males fight for females’ ...
Scientists discovered that a subtle behavior by the female of the species dictates whether the quick-fire procreation process ...
Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land.
Researchers have identified how the architecture of brain circuits helps different species flexibly adapt to new mating signals across evolutionary timeframes. Male fruit flies have several tricks for ...
Resemblant of higher organisms, yeast gametes communicate during the mating process by secreting and sensing sexual pheromones. However, in contrast to higher eukaryotes, budding yeast is isogamous: ...
Endangered leopard sharks have been observed mating in the wild for the first time, with scientists witnessing a “threesome” involving two males and a female. The encounter was filmed by Hugo Lassauce ...
They pretend they’re dead and use a variety of other tactics to avoid the advances of overeager males, proving they’re not defenseless and passive. By Elizabeth Preston Some male frogs cannot take a ...