A healthy garden attracts more than pollinators. It can bring California quail, too. Discover how these social birds help ...

As Justice Brett Kavanaugh put it during this week’s oral arguments in the first cases on the topic to come before the ...

A team of shark researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has solved a long-standing mystery, identifying the first ...

In truth, it is not a paradox. The animals involved all seem perfectly eager participants in heterosexual behaviour, as well, so their reproduction is not compromised. It is, though, a puzzle—for ...

Find out what a male, female and juvenile northern bobwhite looks like, what they sound like, and where you may find these ...

Biologists have long pondered why males in most species are more colorful than females. Darwin's theory of sexual selection explains this, with bright plumage signaling health and genetic fitness to ...

HOUGHTON, MI – A resolution declaring there are “only two sexes male and female” is on a county board agenda in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula this week. The Houghton County Board of Commissioners is ...

A wave of pseudoscientific papers has tried to dismantle one of biology’s most fundamental truths: only two sexes exist, male and female. These papers often claim that sex is a broad “spectrum,” and ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. The teaching ...

Not only is this species new to science, but this remarkable individual is the first record of a rare biological phenomenon (bilateral gynandromorphism) in this previously unknown species. One of the ...

In the western forests of Thailand, a burrowing creature that was both male and female was discovered. Maria Krasnova via Unsplash As a scientist, discovering and describing a new species is rare.

College students are showing up with tote bags, wired ear buds and matcha lattes for a chance to win “performative male” contests that have popped up on campuses around the country. The goal in these ...