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As you may have noticed, “sex” is out, and “sex assigned at birth” is in. Instead of asking for a…

Despite a common narrative that male mammals tend to dwarf female ones, fewer than half of mammalian species display that…

In an unlikely act of altruism observed two years ago, a male elephant seal prevented a younger animal from drowning.

For biologists, menopause is baffling. If natural selection favors genes that produce more descendants, why don’t women remain fertile their…

Female frogs have evolved a variety of tactics to avoid the advances of overeager males, proving they’re not defenseless and…

Hillary Simms is the first woman to become a member of the American Brass Quintet. She says the field needs…

The animals had been extinct for more than 70 years in the country, which has just begun a program that…

A new study challenges a century-old assumption used to exclude female mice from scientific research because of their hormonal cycles.

In 2022, the Brit Awards merged its top artist prizes to include male, female and nonbinary acts. This year, the…

Scientists studied the muscles that make a female-male role reversal possible in a group of insects.