When many mammals are sleeping during the winter, American beavers are actively courting, mating, and rearing offspring.

Love is in the air for the vinegar fly. Drosophila melanogaster has long been a model for understanding how brains translate sensory information into courtship behavior. Male flies perform a multitude ...

The annual aggregation of giant cuttlefish in the Spencer Gulf attracts photographers, divers and researchers from across the globe. But a microscopic menace could endanger the phenomenon.

In response to social cues, individual clownfish will switch sexes. Cutting-edge research reveals the neural and genetic ...

There are many ways to communicate with prospective romantic partners. If you are a Japanese scarab beetle, it's a matter of distinguishing left from right. New work from U.S. and Chinese scientists, ...

On this day of ritualised human seduction, consider the love life of the Australian giant cuttlefish. They’re pretty weird when it comes to wooing, as you might expect of an animal with three hearts, ...

Every critter on this planet that relies on a sexual means of reproduction has its own way of luring in a mate – but cuttlefish can do something really special. Male Andrea cuttlefish (Doratosepion ...

Scientists hope understanding coyote widowhood will someday help humans in their own grief. A pair of coyotes (Canis latrans) in Griffith Park, Los Angeles. Unlike most other animals, coyotes have ...

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Every major smartphone brand seems to be chasing thinness again. After years of packing phones with giant batteries and bigger camera bumps, 2025 has brought a new wave of slim devices. Huawei’s entry ...