Chimps give birth like humans Humans are not alone in having infants that emerge facing backwards.

Babbling in babies and marmoset monkeys shows how brain growth and feedback from caregivers shape language learning.

There were shrieks of horror when one of the strange-looking animals emerged from the goat. A farmer was left shocked after his goat gave birth to a ‘half-pig half-human' creature. There are now ...

The human placenta actually entrenches itself so aggressively into the uterine wall that it sometimes leads to severe hemorrhaging at birth, Ayers told me, when the tissue starts to rip away.

Complicated births may not have arisen in humans as a trade-off between our need for big brains and pelvises suitable for upright walking, new research in chimps suggests.

Researchers experimenting with chimeric embryos say they could develop into adult pigs, sheep or cows with human organs that one day might be suitable for transplantation in people.

Mother's Day celebrates the accomplishments of human mothers, but how do moms across the animal kingdom cope with the demands of pregnancy, birth and child rearing? In "Wild Moms" (Pegasus Books ...

Why study childbirth? It’s quite different in humans than in other animals. Humans have a more complicated, more difficult, and perhaps riskier time giving birth, and that’s related to two features of ...

The Spiritual Nature of Animals mmMany spiritual traditions acknowledge that animals possess a soul-like essence. Their ...