Animal mothers and babies are adorably cute. They illustrate the strong bonds of motherhood that people share with them as ...

You may know Koko as a huge, happy, captive gorilla who uses some sign language. She is 45 years old now. She lives in California. She likes kittens. She even understands the birds and the bees and ...

Some fish produce millions of eggs. Insects can repopulate at astonishing speed. Some birds lay more eggs than it seems possible for them to handle. And even some mammals have litters so large they ...

The vast majority of animals need to breed to reproduce. But a small subset of animals can have offspring without mating. The process, called parthenogenesis, allows creatures from honey bees to ...

It takes a lot of energy to make a baby, whatever species you are. Biologists studying animal energy expenditure have been underestimating the requirements of reproduction for decades by focusing on ...

Researchers in the U.S., have managed to create an artificial ovary that enabled a mouse to conceive and produce babies. Credit: Magic mine/Shutterstock.com A mouse that had its natural ovary replaced ...

Any human mom can attest that keeping a baby fed and happy can be a Herculean task. That’s why some animal mothers have evolved some truly creative—and sometimes surprising—strategies. For instance, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Food and milk from the offspring of cloned animals may have entered the U.S. food supply, the U.S. government said on Tuesday, but it would be impossible to know because there ...