When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A microscope image of the tissue around the rete ovarii, an organ that may play an important role ...

In a bizarre twist of evolution, some fish have been found to be able to control which sperm fertilizes their eggs in order to have the best offspring. According to a study published in the journal ...

Nature's reproductive wonders are revealed as several female animals, including Komodo dragons, sharks, and even birds like ...

An unsung appendage in the female body, which has long been considered useless, may actually be essential for ovary development and fertility, a new mouse study finds. This structure, called the rete ...

As scientists gain a better understanding of the mysteries of human physiology, the protein called myostatin (MSTN) has repeatedly been shown to play a central role in human reproduction. A new ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Successful conservation interventions have helped mountain gorilla populations recover from 620 in 1989 to more than 1,000 today. However, mountain ...

Cat Bohannon, author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, says sexism is a massive set of rules all cultures have to control female reproduction. For Bohannon, sex ...

Dolphins have active sex lives, with frequent dalliances not just for reproduction. One reason may be that the prominent female dolphin clitoris provides sexual pleasure. The findings suggest that the ...

Reproduction is a complicated process controlled by extra- and intracellular regulators of brain chemistry and gonadotropins. And plant molecules can affect these processes at every level. A recent ...

The female orgasm has been a complex and difficult-to-study and understand phenomenon for centuries. Now researchers have come up with an easier way of studying female orgasms using rabbits. They ...