A research team demonstrates that increased levels of ozone resulting from anthropogenic air pollution can degrade insect sex pheromones, which are crucial mating signals, and thus prevent successful ...

Older male whales are more successful at mating than their younger rivals because they are better singers, suggests a new study. â ¯ Older singing male whales are increasingly successful at siring ...

In his excellent book The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature, my good friend and colleague Geoffrey Miller argues that men use artistic expression as a form of ...

A female mosquito only gets one shot to get reproduction right: She mates just a single time in her entire life. With the stakes so high, it would make sense for these insects to be quite choosey when ...

Older male whales are more successful at mating than their younger rivals because they are better singers, suggests a new study. Older singing male whales are increasingly successful at siring ...

Insect sexual communication relies to a significant extent on pheromones, chemical attractants that specifically allow males and females of a species to mate. Sex pheromones are distinctive to males ...