Animal mothers exhibit remarkable resilience and ingenuity when raising large litters. Species like the tailless tenrec and ...

Nature pulls off some amazing surprises when it comes to reproduction, especially among animals that produce massive broods ...

Many mammals deliver in minutes after long pregnancies. See which species have the quickest births to help newborns thrive.

Large litters are not uncommon in the animal kingdom, but some species give birth to thousands, and even millions, of young.

A Surinam toad camouflages itself by dead leaves (credit: Getty Images) A South American frog whose young erupt from the mother’s back. Called (confusingly) the Surinam toad, it is the most ...

Although the federal government was partially closed last month, a creature in its custody, apparently unaware of any restrictions, produced a litter of four little ones in a breeding milestone.

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When most people think of baby frogs and toads, they think of tadpoles. But a few frog and toad species (less than 1%) actually give birth to fully-formed froglets. Nectophrynoides viviparus is a tree ...

The baby girl was left at a busy Midtown subway station on Monday morning. The woman charged with abandoning her newborn at a Midtown Manhattan subway station told investigators she gave birth just ...

Australian food influencer Stacey Hatfield died on September 29, shortly after giving birth to her first son, Axel, at home. Her death was caused by an "unforeseen and extremely rare complication" ...