News tagged with male genitalia

Duda, where'd my spines go?

UC researcher finds that when it comes to hooking up with the opposite sex, genital complexities do matter.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 07, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers reveal secrets of duck sex: It's all screwed up

Female ducks have evolved an intriguing way to avoid becoming impregnated by undesirable but aggressive males endowed with large corkscrew-shaped penises: vaginas with clockwise spirals that thwart oppositely ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Genital stimulation opens door for cryptic female choice in tsetse flies

Manipulation of male and/or female genitalia results in a suite of changes in female reproductive behavior in tsetse flies, carriers of African sleeping sickness.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Shape, fit of reproductive organs evolve quickly and in concert, leaving size behind

Believed critical for determining which individuals can -- or cannot -- successfully reproduce with each other, genitalia not only figure prominently in the origin of new species, but are also typically the ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Parasite lives 'double life'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists keen to understand and preserve global biodiversity have been quietly going about a mammoth task: indexing the world’s known species.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A living species of aquatic beetle found in 20-million-year-old sediments

The fossil beetle discovered in the 16-23 million years old sediments of the Irtysh River in southern Siberia belongs to the modern species Helophorus sibiricus, a member of the water scavenger beetles (Hydro ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Parents feel shock, anxiety and the need to protect children with genital ambiguity

Parents of babies born without clearly defined male or female genitals experience a roller-coaster of emotions, including shock, anxiety and the need to protect their child, according to a study in the October issue of the ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Bijou's abnormally large clitoris leads to big surprise

Bijou is an 18-month old French bulldog that appears perfectly normal at first glance. She is healthy and her behavior is exemplary. However, her owner brought her to the Université de Montréal Faculty ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Stimulation of female genital regions produces strong activation of various brain sites

A new study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine reveals that for the first time, stimulation of the vagina, cervix, or clitoris was shown to activate three separate and distinct sites in the sensory cortex.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Missing DNA helps make us human

A new study demonstrates that specific traits that distinguish humans from their closest living relatives – chimpanzees, with whom we share 96 percent of our DNA – can be attributed to the loss of chunks of DNA ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Hidden pornographic poems explain 'bestseller' success of C18 poetical volumes

An Oxford University academic has explained the secret behind the success of two of the best selling volumes of poetic miscellanies in the 18th Century – a series of pornographic poems were hidden at ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 04, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

For ever and ever: When the wedding flight never ends

German entomologists have now "resurrected" the fossil insect Mengea tertiara. Using high resolution micro-computer tomography the anatomy of an extinct insect was completely reconstructed three-dimensionally ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Brain gene makes a female develop as a male

Australian scientists have discovered that changes to a gene involved in brain development can lead to testis formation and male genitalia in an otherwise female embryo.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 22, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast


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