Similarities to the womb and placenta of female mammals indicate a response to common evolutionary challenges in pregnancy.

Once they near emergence, the female's thin skin bulges and pulsates with the struggles of the impatient froglets. The day ...

"Two Uranus years (one Uranus year is 84.02 Earth years), running from 1900 to 2068 and starting just before southern summer solstice, when Uranus’s south pole points almost directly towards the Sun," ...

Africa's Senegal coucal, a ground-dwelling bird, expertly hunts snakes, its primary prey. While snakes rely on venom or ...

The process is relatively quick, with most female hedgehogs giving birth overnight. By morning, between three and seven new ...

F or many livestock producers, the next two months are a time when some of their animal-related workload is reduced. Beef ...

The animal in question is the Surinam toad, scientifically known as Pipa pipa. Though it might sound unbelievable, this ...

Three new toad species discovered in a mountain range in Tanzania have a super rare reproduction method and give birth to ...

Researchers from around the world have made a very cool toad-related discovery. They identified three previously unknown ...

Live birth, or skipping the egg-laying and larva stage, is extremely rare in amphibians. Among more than 4,000 species of ...