BEND, Ore. — The Humane Society of Central Oregon has welcomed an amazing little fellow: Cinder, a tiny one-pound kitten who is a very rare maletortoiseshell cat and hermaphrodite! The HSCO says ...

Sexual interactions in so-called cross-fertilizingsimultaneous hermaphrodites, such as earthworms, snails, leeches, andsome fishes, have long challenged researchers' understanding of howestablished ...

Hermaphroditic species face a fundamental question: how much energy should they expend on their male and female sides? Flatworms have found various answers to this question over the course of ...

Meet Aegista diversifamilia, a hermaphroditic land snail that just received the honor of becoming recognized as its own, distinct species, and of being named for equal marriage rights. While they were ...

The sex life of hermaphroditic animals is determined by one fundamental question: Who assumes the female role and produces the costly eggs? Hamlets avoid this dilemma by engaging in reciprocal egg ...