Showcases the growth and development of various animal babies, highlighting their unique life cycles. It begins with collie ...

In a shocking display of matriphagy, a mother centipede sacrifices herself for her offspring by becoming their meal.

Shorter-lived animals that won't survive to see their offspring grow will typically have more offspring at once. "They can't sit around and crank out babies," Cole said. "They have to make their ...

These Animals Spawn the Most Offspring in One Go. Spawning fish release lots of eggs—but one species is egg-ceptional. By Liz Langley. April 8, 2017 ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Do Animals Know Where Babies Come From? ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 314 No. 1 (January 2016), p. 66 doi:10.1038 ...

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 ...

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Not all animals are cut out for motherhood. Some will abandon, neglect, even kill their own young. It's part of nature, biologists say. But when animals in zoos kill their own babies, zookeepers ...

The implications here are that these animals recognise that sex leads to babies, and they have some sense of whether or not they were the progenitor of the infants they encounter.

From conception through gestation and rearing, the offspring were kept in regular daylight and nighttime conditions. After about two months, the beginning of hamster adulthood, the scientists ...

How many offspring an animal can have depends on many factors, such as whether they're aquatic and how they get around. Live ...