Scientists are offering the everyman an opportunity to witness a breathtaking sight that up until recently had never been seen by human eyes: a humpback whale giving birth. The extremely rare footage ...

India, Sept. 9 -- When it comes to animal pregnancies, most people expect the gestation period to last a few weeks or several ...

It turns out humpback whales' epic migrations to tropical waters aren't as essential as previously thought for giving birth: calves can be born as far south as Tasmania or New Zealand, 1,500 km ...

This article is republished from The Conversation. Ask any parent—welcoming a new baby to the family is exciting, but it comes with a lot of work. And when the new addition is a pair of ...

Becoming a mother should never feel like a gamble, yet where a woman lives still shapes her odds of surviving childbirth more than almost any other factor. Across the globe, the gap between the safest ...

A Ugandan woman who became one of the world’s oldest new mothers when she gave birth to a boy and girl at age 70 has finally returned home six weeks later — and introduced the “miracle” babies to the ...

As I prepare this article, I am seven months pregnant with my sixth child. Talking about birth fills my heart with deep concern and amazing hope, as I can see how the tide is changing to honor women ...

The oddball minority of animals that don’t lay eggs includes a tough little snail called a rough periwinkle. Unlike mammals giving birth to kittens and fawns and helpless little humans, this ...