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Blind Cavefish Can Produce Seeing Offspring

Despite having adapted to their lightless environment for more than a million years, can produce sighted offspring in just a single generation.

Why Some Animals Eat Their Offspring

Eating your offspring may sound unthinkable, but animals from fish to birds are known to do it. Scientists have been unsure why such a behavior would have evolved, but a new study sheds light on the factors that may drive some parents to eat their young.

Deep-voiced men have more kids

If you want to have lots of kids, look for a Barry White instead of a Justin Timberlake. Men with a deep voices have more offspring, a new study suggests.

Fluorescent Chinese pig passes on trait to offspring

A pig genetically modified in China to make it glow has given birth to fluorescent piglets, proving such changes can be inherited.

Disney Meets Darwin

This excellent example of Darwinian evolution allows you to choose traits of "parent" objects, (those with desirable mutations), to create a walking cartoon figure. Each time you choose the characteristics that you prefer to see in an evolving "walking creature," nine offspring are generated with new/different traits. Clear as mud? Try it by clicking "Animal Lab."

Daughter kept in cellar for 24 years

A father allegedly kept his daughter captive in a cellar for 24 years, Austrian police said Sunday.

*Update to this story here.

Parents Show Bias In Sibling Rivalry, Says Study

It's true, Mom loves your big brother more.

Ewe are one in a million: Sheep gives birth to FIVE lambs

A sheep gave birth to a whopping FIVE lambs - beating odds of one in a million.

The plucky ewe held on to her tiny offspring after the amazing delivery at Solomon's Farm in Rolvenden, Kent.

Glowing Pig Gives Birth to Glowing Piglets

The birth of fluorescent piglets proves that cloned pigs are fertile and they can pass their genes to their offspring

Vitamins May Lower Brain Tumor Risk in Offspring

Women who take vitamin supplements during pregnancy appear to have infants with a reduced risk of brain tumors.

Road-Hog: Pig brings traffic on carriageway to standstill so she can feed her piglets

Stunned motorists had to swerve to avoid an unusual road hog - a mother pig who decided to feed her piglets in the middle of a carriageway. The sow stopped in the centre of the busy country road while all nine of her offspring began to suckle.

Rare Example of Darwinism Seen in Action

A research team of biologists has found experimental evidence that supports a controversial theory of genetic conflict in the reproduction of those animals that support their developing offspring through a placenta.

Zoo criticized for letting a polar bear eat its cubs

Er...yea...like WHO was going to go in and take them away from the mom? Stealing offspring AND food from a polar bear? I'll pass, thanks.

Pupils face tracking bugs in school blazers

A school uniform maker said yesterday it was "seriously considering" adding tracking devices to its clothes after a survey found many parents would be interested in knowing where their offspring were.

I like my woman with some meat on their brains

Women with curvy figures are likely to be brighter than waif-like counterparts and may well produce more intelligent offspring, a US study suggests.

Autonomous Light Air Vessels

Artist Jed Berk created sociable, networked, blimp-like "creatures" that float around and interact with other ALAVs or humans. They are "fed" using LED light and can be communicated with via a human's cellphone.

Here's a video link showing humans interacting with the ALAVs.

Apparently, there are do-it-yourself offspring called Blubber Bots.

The Art of the Saber

Asian take on Light Saber Duel. Martial Arts moves are thrown in. It's like George Lucas had offspring with Kurosawa Akira. These guys are definitely seasoned pros...

Royal corruption is rife in the ant world

Far from being a model of social co-operation, the ant world is riddled with cheating and corruption and it goes all the way to the top, according to scientists from the Universities of Leeds and Copenhagen. Professor Jacobus Boomsma discovered that certain ants are able to cheat the system, ensuring their offspring become reproductive queens rather than sterile workers.

Is your kid really gifted? Probably not.

The growing fascination with giftedness is part natural impulse to see our offspring as special, part wanting to be sure a child's needs are met and maybe a bit of hoping for a competitive edge in the increasingly cutthroat school-admission process -- or bragging rights.

Cat gives birth to puppies

Is this even possible? The offspring were born with dog traits.