11.   Lobsters are decreasing in size, and many of them are being caught before they reach sexual maturity.

12.   Not only is the male minuscule compared with the female, it reaches sexual maturity while still in the egg sac.

13.   Others question whether schools can, or should, help guide students through what can be a labyrinthine journey to sexual maturity.

14.   Scientists say he could be right and add that scores of other reasons are possible for change in fish size or sexual maturity.

15.   She related certain milestones, like gestation period, full-grown size and age at sexual maturity, to the age of weaning.

16.   Spiders stop growing when they reach sexual maturity, so that necessarily means maturing smaller.

17.   Such populations would have a better chance of reaching sexual maturity and reproducing before being hunted down.

18.   The piglets, in turn, reach sexual maturity in six months.

19.   There is a high chance of being caught long before it reaches sexual maturity, which takes at least a decade.

20.   They came into their sexual maturity in the age of AIDS.