Genetic diversity is essential to the survival of a species. It's easy enough to maintain if a species reproduces sexually; an egg and a sperm combine genetic material from two creatures into one, ...

“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in ...

HENDERSONVILLE - Already a local favorite by visitors to Main Street's Aquarium and Shark Lab by Team ECCO, the female stingray named Charlotte is now a worldwide celebrity, and for a good reason — ...

As much as 6 percent of people are intersex, having chromosomes, gonads, and/or genitals that do not fit neatly into a male or female category. For this and other reasons, human biology is not binary.

The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction ...

What if the song "Baby Shark" stopped after just two stanzas? For non-fans of the catchy tune, that might sound like a dream. For a real-life Mommy Shark in Illinois, it's reality: She produced a baby ...

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