The lab-raised, male mosquitoes are meant to breed with the invasive ones on the islands and produce sterile eggs that will help suppress avian malaria ...

It sounds like something out of a nightmare: a giant drone flying through the sky and dropping containers full of live, ...

Historically, researchers focused on the role of sperm characteristics in fertilization success, but now female factors and cooperative processes are gaining recognition.

In general, tropical understory birds live longer and invest more in their survival than in reproduction. “If there is less food, these birds will most likely reduce their reproductive efforts ...

A local veterinarian started a program to limit the birds’ reproduction by administering vasectomies. CNN’s Lynda Kinkade has the story. US Coast Guard rescues 32 from overloaded yacht off ...

The pesticide had been linked to a decline in the birds’ reproduction rate and was one of the reasons they had been on the endangered species list. “They hadn’t been breeding here,” Smith ...

Keith Grasman, a biologist who studies environmental health effects at the Grand Rapids-based university, from 2010 to 2019 looked at reproduction ... The birds studied were herring gulls ...

Climate change averted bird reproduction which is an indication that various life forms are interrelated. Birds’ travails with changing seasons and loss of habitats mean that difficulties in ...

The bird's population has since increased to an ... and could also present hurdles to reproduction.

The researchers hypothesized that energy trade-offs made throughout a bird's lifetime could directly impact the likelihood of cancer incidence. Specifically, they investigated the relationship between ...

Cancer affects virtually all multicellular organisms, birds included. A new study highlights the trade-off between investment in reproduction and DNA maintenance. Birds laying larger numbers of ...