Australia's Great Southern Reef is built not by coral but by seaweed. The seaweed forests on these rocky reefs stretch more ...

Starting one's sex life and having children at a young age can run in the family. But can pregnancy have beneficial health ...

And in reality, if you go back to the late 1950s, into the ’60s and even into the early 1970s, you would say some of the ...

Sexual reproduction only began to improve when early animals began facing more stress and competition, a study suggests.

The world’s life-forms reproduce sexually in a bewildering variety of ways, even though scientists still aren’t sure why they ...

In 2022, using the Wentian lab module of China's Space Station, the team completed, for the first time, the full life-cycle cultivation of rice "from seed to seed," successfully harvesting space-grown ...

Legal reformers and reproductive justice advocates spent years challenging the classification of essential menstrual hygiene ...

Fern-like bodies once covered the seafloor, some stretching as tall as a person. Yet for millions of years, the animal world barely seemed to budge.

For millions of years, some of Earth’s earliest animals barely changed. They lived, grew, and spread across the seafloor, but ...

Fossils from some of the oldest-known animals on Earth, dating from 574 million years ago (Ediacaran period), suggest that cloning, not competition, dominated the Ediacaran seas, slowing evolution ...

Evolution is responsible for Earth’s stunningly diverse spectrum of life, but that wasn’t always the case. In fact, the earliest eras of living organisms were comparatively bo ...