In Telford's Exotic Zoo, life found a way. A casque-headed iguana has given birth to eight babies at the Shropshire wildlife park – without any contact with a male, via a phenomenon called ...

An artificial “superfood” that provides essential nutrients for bees results in colonies producing much more larvae, suggesting it could help tackle the global decline in honeybees. Bees need to eat ...

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Until now, cells dividing by mitosis were thought to grow round and then split into two identical, spherical daughter cells. New research has found that some cells are isomorphic, meaning they retain ...

Sharks play a critical role in maintaining the balance of ocean ecosystems. Whether they’re top predators or mesopredators, their presence helps regulate populations of prey species and support the ...

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The Tyrannosaurus at Spain’s Jurassic Museum of Asturias offer a speculative take on how dinosaurs mated. Mario modesto via Wikipedia under CC By-SA 3.0 Dinosaurs had sex. Fossil nests and eggs, as ...

Third-party reproduction—using donor sperm, donor eggs, or surrogates to conceive—is often met with mixed emotions and discomfort. Although these methods help individuals and couples build families, ...

Photos in one of the chassis’ two listings show an AE86 hatchback unibody covered in a matrix of dots, which implies the company 3D-scanned it to replicate it piece-by-piece. If it’s assembled in the ...

You might think flowers don’t have much choice about who they mate with, given they are rooted to the ground and can’t move. But when scientists from Nagoya, Japan used powerful microscopes to study ...

FEW people perhaps fully realise how abundantly the mosses are provided with modes of vegetative reproduction, even although they may be fully cognisant of the fact that the protonema—the precursor of ...

The energy invested in animal reproduction is as much as 10 times greater than previously estimated when the metabolic load of bearing and caring for offspring is accounted for, according to a new ...