Mating calls and rituals can be intercepted, or drowned out, by invasive species. Scientists are just starting to understand ...

Finding a mate is hard in the animal kingdom! As these strangest animal mating rituals show, it sometimes gets even more complicated after you do.

For some animals, reproduction comes at the ultimate cost—their own lives. While this may seem extreme, it's a natural strategy to maximize reproductive success. These species invest everything into ...

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For a small number of animals, reproduction marks a biological endpoint rather than a stage in an ongoing life cycle. Death follows mating with such consistency that it can be predicted within a ...