Despite having sex with males, females of a Japanese stick insect species produce offspring that are genetically identical to themselves. Combined with other evidence, it suggests that the males of ...

Kimberly S. Sheldon receives funding from the US National Science Foundation. If the TV series “Dirty Jobs” covered animals as well as humans, it would probably start with dung beetles. These ...

Among animals where sexual reproduction is common, there are quite a few species that reproduce only with females. In such species, females give birth to female offspring (this is called ...

Scientists at the University of Bonn, together with colleagues from China, UK and Poland, have described the oldest evidence of brood care in insects: it is in a female scale insect with her young ...