Researchers show that ozone levels, such as those found in many places on hot summer days today, destroy the sex pheromones of fruit fly species. As a result, some natural mating boundaries maintained ...

When it comes to impressing the ladies, greater sage-grouse males know that smooth dance moves trump combative posturing. Indeed, new Yale research into these prairie-dwelling birds confirms that ...

When the scientists paired two male octopuses in the same setup, the males interacted by touching arms, but they never attempted to mate. This suggested that a specific, female-derived chemical cue ...

As seas heat up, female angelsharks are prioritizing survival over reproduction, leaving their male counterparts waiting alone at breeding sites. In the warming waters of the Canary Islands, female ...

A newly discovered group of tarantulas is so bizarre that scientists had to invent a whole new genus—Satyrex—to describe them ...

When fish from different habitats meet, it’s not always love at first swim. New research from Lund University in Sweden in collaboration with North Carolina State University shows that aggressive ...

Scientists found “dragon”-like creatures with “long” legs mating at a cave in Thailand and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Ruttapon Srisonchai via Srisonchai, Srikampha, Benchapong ...

Few shark species have ever been caught mating on camera. So when marine biologist Hugo Lassauce stumbled upon a trio of Indo-Pacific leopard sharks copulating in quick succession, he knew he had the ...

The spiders - who have been given the genus Satyrex - live in the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa.