Blocking reproduction through contraception or sterilization increases lifespan in both male and female mammals across more ...

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

Nagoya University researchers discovered a gene that actively suppresses food-odor detection in roundworms after reproduction ...

Animal reproduction and breeding encompasses the full spectrum of natural, assisted and genetic processes that underpin the perpetuation, improvement and conservation of species across diverse taxa.

The energy invested in animal reproduction is as much as 10 times greater than previously estimated when the metabolic load of bearing and caring for offspring is accounted for, according to a new ...

An international research team, including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, ...

How do animals decide when to fight and when to walk, fly, slither, or swim away? Most research on animal conflict has focused on the short-term costs of single interactions, but a pair of behavioral ...

Animal mothers exhibit remarkable resilience and ingenuity when raising large litters. Species like the tailless tenrec and ...

For the first time, scientists have induced facultative parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction, in an animal that usually reproduces sexually. An estimated 76 percent of fruit flies can ...