Same-sex behavior is common across the animal kingdom—more than 1,500 species are estimated to have been observed engaging in ...

Biologists tend to look at the animal kingdom and try to categorize things in an organized fashion. But nature has a way of ...

In a breakthrough study, scientists have transferred a courtship behavior from one species to another, triggering the recipient to perform this completely foreign act as if it was its own. While genes ...

Researchers have discovered how networks of neurons in fruit flies transform simple brain signals into coordinated actions. This sheds light on the neural mechanisms underlying complex behaviors for ...