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Nature's reproductive wonders are revealed as several female animals, including Komodo dragons, sharks, and even birds like California condors, can reproduce without a male. This remarkable ability, ...

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

The mating game in the animal kingdom is nothing less than fascinating and somewhat weird. Some species pierce, clone, chew, or even fake their way through the mating process. To make survival ...

During mammalian reproduction, millions of sperm undertake a journey that only one will finish. This journey to fertilization has been commonly viewed as a race: a sea of sperm competing to get to the ...

Nature is full of wonders, and some of the most amazing surprises come from how animals reproduce. While most of us think that having babies always requires a male and a female, that’s not true for ...