The mating game in the animal kingdom is nothing less than fascinating and somewhat weird. Some species pierce, clone, chew, or even fake their way through the mating process. To make survival ...

Assisted reproductive techniques may be riskier than natural conception. May 5, 2012— -- Babies conceived with infertility treatment methods are more likely to have certain birth defects than ...

Biologists have for the first time taken a detailed look at hybridogenic reproduction methods on a community scale among desert ants. The Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at Université ...

The most recent additions to the scimitar-horned oryx herd at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute are two calves borne from an improved artificial insemination method. Smithsonian ...

Biologists studying an Australian lizard observed something no one had ever documented in a vertebrate before. A single female produced offspring through two different reproductive methods during the ...

Snakes, like most reptiles in the world, are oviparous. This means that rather than producing live young ones, the way mammals do, snakes produce an immature single cell — an egg. Most snakes follow ...