What if consciousness did not begin with thought, language, or self-awareness? Exploring whether hunger and sexual desire ...

Women in eastern Congo are often the first caregivers when family members fall ill. That puts them at high risk during this ...

I’m revisiting it due to increasing interest — and confusion — around gender politics. While one’s gender can be as fluid as our culture is diverse, biological sex isn’t. Eukaryotes like us are born ...

In the first broad evolutionary analysis of its kind, Chloe Heys and her colleagues found that masturbation appears across ...

Researchers have identified that mutations to vgll3 that are beneficial in early life also reduce lifespan and contribute to ...

A tiny river fish, the Amazon molly, has survived 100,000 years without males, revealing alternative ways life maintains ...

Women are 40 times more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth in Central African Republic than in the United States, ...

No matter what brought you here—if you live with or without birds, if you have lain awake at night pondering the problem of ...

The death of eight lions, including cubs, from suspected Babesiosis in Gujarat's Gir landscape has reignited concerns about ...

All-female species have been long thought of as evolutionary dead ends – but one fish has defied the odds to live without ...

The girlfriend of a former reality show star who is charged with having sexual contact with two dogs was booked into the Warren County Jail on Friday.Jail records show Erica Grove, 43, was indicted on ...

Nature can be surprisingly brutal. Some predators employ hunting methods so unsettling they rival human stories of our most ...