Scientists discovered that a subtle behavior by the female of the species dictates whether the quick-fire procreation process ...

Humans like plants. We like seeing them change the color of their leaves throughout the year. They connect us to nature even ...

It may sound freaky, but the Japanese yellow swallowtail butterfly can actually 'see' with its genitals. Twenty years ago, ...

For a small number of animals, reproduction marks a biological endpoint rather than a stage in an ongoing life cycle. Death ...

In lab experiments and field studies, the team tracked the beetles with fluorescent dyes as they moved from cone to cone. They found the beetles visited the warmest regions of the pollen cones, ...

Many insect species hear using tympanal organs, membranes roughly resembling our eardrums but located on their legs. Grasshoppers, mantises, and moths all have them, and for decades, we thought that ...

Evolution, and in particular sexual selection - the evolution of traits that increase an animal’s attractiveness to the opposite sex or allow them to outcompete sexual rivals - has produced some quite ...

“The sexual excitation system is the accelerator or the gas pedal, and it notices all the sex-related information in the environment.” Dominican Republic says it seized cocaine that was on speedboat ...

A beautiful, colourful moth, previously mistaken for over a century, has been revealed as a new species by entomologist Dr Peter Huemer of the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck, Austria.

Researchers have just identified four new species of tarantulas whose genitals are so long they had to make a new biological classification for them. Meet the Satyrex ferox, S. arabicus, S. somalicus, ...

BRANDON, Fla. — The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office arrested one of its own employees for exposure of sexual organs outside a Brandon mall. A 911 call came in just after 7:15 p.m. Tuesday ...