I've not previously posted about my husband's research, but he's got an amazing new paper out in PLoS Biology being covered by other bloggers too! David Lowry's work demonstrates through ...

Demographic and evolutionary dynamics in wild metapopulations are critically affected by the balance between dispersal and local adaptation. Where populations are demographically interconnected by ...

African Journal of Reproductive Health / La Revue Africaine de la Santé Reproductive, Vol. 14, No. 4, Special Issue (December 2010), pp. 127-139 (13 pages) This paper reviews 44 National Adaptation ...

Scientists studying Australia’s walking sharks found reproduction demands no extra energy, even under stress, raising new ...

Insight into why females of some species undergo menopause while others do not has proven elusive despite an understanding of the biological mechanisms behind the change. However, new research ...

Two wombs, a forked penis, and giving birth through the nose. These are just a few of the bizarre stories circulating about ...

Some fish species are adapting to survive environmental changes without significant genetic evolution, according to research from the University of East Anglia and Dalhousie University, Canada. Such ...

The big question of climate change is no longer why it’s happening (humans have a wild fossil-fuel-burning habit) nor when it’s going to happen (it is happening). These days, it’s how are we going to ...

River turtles face immense challenges from predators and environmental factors from birth. Despite remarkable reproductive adaptations like sperm storage, human-induced threats such as habitat ...

Snakes exhibit a fascinating diversity of reproductive strategies, including egg-laying (oviparity), live birth (viviparity), and a combination of both (ovoviviparity). They utilize pheromones for ...