Courtship behaviors are very similar in all cultures that allow people to choose their own love partners. Unfortunately, myths about courtship behaviors have evolved over the millennia and become a ...

Researchers in Japan have genetically transferred a unique courtship behavior from one fruit fly species to another. By turning on a single gene in insulin-producing neurons, the team successfully ...

Since gay couples have fewer children, the high frequency of same-sex relationships in humans is puzzling from an evolutionary point of view. Perhaps there are social advantages such relationships ...

Courtship in salamanders is orchestrated by intricate chemical signals that mediate attraction, receptivity and coordination of mating rituals. Males produce a suite of proteinaceous and peptide ...

British researchers have discovered that the way crickets rub their wings together to sing — is about the closest an insect can come to a dating app. In many parts of the world, crickets' song is a ...

Love is in the air for the vinegar fly. Drosophila melanogaster has long been a model for understanding how brains translate sensory information into courtship behavior. Male flies perform a multitude ...

Researchers have captured rare video of whale shark courtship behavior, revealing intimate details of the largest fish in the sea. Reading time 2 minutes Even the biggest fish in the sea have their ...