I received a first-hand tutorial in whitetail deer gestation period just the other day. While hunting for morel mushrooms, I stumbled on a tiny fawn curled up in the downed top of an oak tree. I’ve ...

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 ...

For humans, the gestation period can last forty weeks. There are cramps, morning sickness, strange food cravings, increasing discomfort, and a multitude of other effects. And the nine months of ...

Which group of mammals has the more 'primitive' reproductive strategy -- marsupials, with their short gestation periods, or humans and other placental mammals, which have long gestation periods? For ...

Is your dog pregnant and you’re left wondering when your home might be overrun by a litter of puppies? Taking care of a pregnant dog might put you on edge every day, but learning about the gestation ...

Elephants are among the smartest, largest animals on the planet. With all that size and brain power, it should come as no surprise that making a baby elephant is no easy task. In fact, elephants have ...

The elephant has a gestation period of about 22 months – a long time. Fine you say, what does that have to do with anything. Well, I was talking with my friend Tommy Mayne; he is North American T&D ...

University of Cambridge scientists say they have identified a key pathway that controls the expansion of the placental vascular tree in late gestation, demonstrating that fetus-derived signals are ...