“Almost all other monogamous mammals either live in tight family units of just a breeding pair and their offspring, or in ...

An expectant mother gave birth inside a driverless taxi in a scene straight out of a science fiction novel.

Cutting off reproduction — from birth control to castration — consistently adds years to life across species, even humans.

Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, ...

There may be good reasons to object to using animals as living organ factories, including welfare concerns. But the rationale behind the NIH ban that human cells could make pigs too human rests on a ...

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

Many mammals deliver in minutes after long pregnancies. See which species have the quickest births to help newborns thrive.

In the animal kingdom, pregnancy rarely follows the rules, with many species being pregnant for a year or more.

Dakota Evans, granddaughter of Live and Let Live founder Teresa Paradis, coaxes Miss Bell as she cares for her four newborn puppies. Credit: REBECA PEREIRA / Monitor Sign up for the Concord Monitor's ...

A Surinam toad camouflages itself by dead leaves (credit: Getty Images) A South American frog whose young erupt from the mother’s back. Called (confusingly) the Surinam toad, it is the most ...

Hunting is considered critical to human evolution by many researchers who believe that several characteristics that distinguish humans from our closest living relatives, the apes, may have partly ...