Every summer, a symphony of grunts, croaks and roars echoes below the surface of the western Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico to signal the launch of spotted seatrout spawning season. Last year, the ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. For any animal, releasing sperm cells requires a bit of time and ...

Some animals reproduce only once before dying. This life strategy, called semelparity, sees organisms channel all energy into ...

In a new meta-study, experts have published ground-breaking findings on the effects of climate change for fish stock around the globe. Because fish that are ready to mate and their young are ...

NOTE: The embargo for this release has been lifted. A biologist at Washington University in St. Louis has shown that for some fish species, females prefer males with larger sexual organs, and actually ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In many species, individuals prefer mates that are genetically dissimilar at the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), likely because it ...

In a weird and wacky finding, scientists have discovered the limit to how many times a strange fish can have sex in a single day. These fish, named medaka or Oryzias latipes, were found to be able to ...