A new study by Harvard biologists reveals how octopuses feel their way to potential mates with a "taste by touch" sensory ...

A porcupine when threatened turns its rear to the predator, erects its quills and begins swinging its tail like a club.

A snake which previously gave birth to 14 snakelets despite not having a mate has birthed more babies for a second time.

Here, ‘weirdness’ abounds. The platypus, for example, seemingly has the beak of a duck, the body of an otter, and the tail of a beaver. It lays leathery eggs like a reptile, yet feeds milk to its ...

Being able to reproduce both sexually and asexually gives the dragons an evolutionary edge, Garcia says. If no mate is handy, a female can bear sons parthenogenetically—and when they’re older, they ...