Males engage in a two-week-long sex marathon with as many females as they can find. Each frenzied encounter can last up to 14 ...

Finding a partner and sticking with them for life isn’t all that common in the animal world, but a few species really commit. Scientists have found lifelong bonds among creatures in trees, rivers, ...

Fatal attractions are a standard movie plotline, but they also occur in nature, with much more serious consequences. As a conservation biologist, I’ve seen them play out in some of Earth’s most remote ...

Tap dancing birds, shuffling spiders, and wiggling honeybees; dancing is not just a human phenomenon. Many types of animals ...

Birds have some of the most elaborate courtship rituals of any animal. There’s a reason for that: Males of most species have to work hard to impress the females, whether it’s with killer dance moves ...

Raïssa de Boer received funding from the Carl Tryggers Foundation (17:152). Regina Vega Trejo receives funding from the Swedish Research Council 2017-04957. We’d expect to see the same attitude extend ...

The puppies of a wolf that mated with a domestic dog must be tracked down and shot, authorities in the southeastern German state of Bavaria have announced. Officials documented the wolf-dog hybrids in ...