This study is led by Professor Fangqing Zhao's research team from Beijing Institute of Life Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with the team led by Director Ningxia Sun from the ...

Humans have a long gestational period of 9 months. But did you know that some animals remain pregnant for over a year? Animals, including the elephant, walrus, giraffe, sperm whale, and dolphin, have ...

The menstrual cycle plays an essential role in human reproduction. However, most other animals don't experience menstruation. So, which other species have periods, and what's the evolutionary point of ...

A study of horses -- which share many important similarities with humans in their chromosomes and pregnancies -- revealed that 42% of miscarriages and spontaneous abortions in the first two months of ...