When it comes to animals romancing in the wild, things get weird—really weird. Some animals offer bizarre gifts, some put on ...

Female praying mantises are notorious for eating their mates during or after sex. Now, scientists have discovered a dwarf ...

For the first time, scientists have captured video evidence of what appears to be blue shark mating behavior off the Basque ...

Courtship behaviors are very similar in all cultures that allow people to choose their own love partners. Unfortunately, myths about courtship behaviors have evolved over the millennia and become a ...

Spider courtship boasts some of the most charismatic and strategic rituals in the animal kingdom: bondage worthy of the bedroom, percussive performances worthy of the drumline, silent sounds worthy of ...

A gene associated with courtship behavior in fruit flies does not operate the same way in two different fruit fly species, a new study finds. The work demonstrates that conserved genes – the same ...

Hopefully, you have known a co-worker with whom you just “clicked.” You probably had no real sexual interest in the person, nor did you desire an intimate relationship with them, but you invariably ...

A new study uses sibling genetics to compare monogamy across species. Humans score higher than expected and sit close to ...

Drosophila melanogaster has long served as a prime model for investigating the neural underpinnings of innate social behaviour. Courtship in these flies comprises a series of complex, stereotyped ...

Researchers in Japan have genetically transferred a unique courtship behavior from one fruit fly species to another. By turning on a single gene in insulin-producing neurons, the team successfully ...

What can a tiny wasp with a rather gruesome parasitic life cycle teach us about evolution, behavior and human developmental diseases? In a new paper, researchers led by István Mikó and Holly Hoag at ...