Life expectancy across 117 mammals was increased by hormonal contraception and surgical sterilization in new study.

An international research team, including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, ...

Changing environmental conditions may threaten marine mammal populations by making it harder to find prey, and a new study shows how small, gradual reductions in prey could have profound implications ...

Which group of mammals has the more 'primitive' reproductive strategy -- marsupials, with their short gestation periods, or humans and other placental mammals, which have long gestation periods? For ...

Sticking with a long-term life partner to rear children has long been considered a dominant mating pattern for our species, ...

v. 1. Germ cells and fertilization.--v. 2. Embryonic and fetal development.--v. 3. Hormones in reproduction.--v. 4. Reproductive patterns.--v. 5. Artificial control ...

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A microbiologist named João Pedro de Magalhães has proposed the idea that the reign of dinosaurs forced mammals to speed up their reproductive cycle, eliminating key longevity genes. de Magalhães ...

A global analysis of zoo records and published studies reveals that blocking reproduction through contraception or ...