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 ...

A research group has developed a new system to detect mating in fruit flies using artificial intelligence. They used the system to determine how fruit flies use mechanical stimuli during mating to ...

In the animal kingdom, mating isn’t always about survival. From praying mantises to octopuses, some species die during or ...

For a small number of animals, reproduction marks a biological endpoint rather than a stage in an ongoing life cycle. Death ...

For some animals, reproduction comes at the ultimate cost—their own lives. While this may seem extreme, it's a natural strategy to maximize reproductive success. These species invest everything into ...

Male bonobos have an impressive ability to detect when females are most fertile, even though the usual visual cues are unreliable. Researchers tracking wild bonobos in the Congo discovered that males ...

A research group at the Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University in Japan has used artificial intelligence to determine that Piezo, a channel that receives mechanical stimuli, plays a role in ...