Iron deficiency disrupts a sex-determining pathway in mice — plus, research highlighting the role that small-scale fishers ...

It had the bright scarlet feathers of a male grosbeak on one side of its body and the canary yellow plumage of a female on the other. When they saw the robin-size songbird’s split coloring ...

KEARNEY — It’s almost impossible to be in the right place at the right time to see an endangered whooping crane, even though the tall white whoopers with black wingtips and red caps stand out ...

WOOD RIVER — Felipe Chavez-Ramirez, executive director of the Platte River Whooping Crane Trust, has become one of five American members of the International Whooping Crane Recovery Team.

A new study from Toho University reveals that female earwigs exhibit a similar pattern of exaggerated forceps growth as males ...

When a crocodile threatens their lives, a jacana dad steps up and becomes the hero, carrying his young chicks to safety under his wings.

A trio of biologists from Universidade de São Paulo, Red Ecoacústica Colombia and the University of Missouri System has found that researchers conduct only a fraction of studies of female frog calls ...

In “A Sharp Endless Need,” two female high school athletes get lost ... A SHARP ENDLESS NEED, by Marisa Crane In his 2024 book “There’s Always This Year,” the writer Hanif Abdurraqib ...

Across their lives — in their educational achievement, mental health and transitions to adulthood — there are warning signs that they are falling behind, even as their female peers surge ahead.