Finding a mate is hard in the animal kingdom! As these strangest animal mating rituals show, it sometimes gets even more ...

Males engage in a two-week-long sex marathon with as many females as they can find. Each frenzied encounter can last up to 14 hours. As soon as he’s done with one female, he moves on to another, ...

Swipe left on the ordinary—nature’s version of dating puts our modern love lives to shame. From deceptive dances to downright bizarre bedroom strategies, animals have evolved mating rituals that are ...

For a small number of animals, reproduction marks a biological endpoint rather than a stage in an ongoing life cycle. Death ...

In the animal kingdom, mating isn’t always about survival. From praying mantises to octopuses, some species die during or ...