If asexual reproduction survives at all ... which consists only of females who reproduce by parthenogenesis. They appear to be the only known unisexual reptile. Clones generally hit a dead ...

Those molecular samples have now revealed something completely unexpected: two of the California condor females produced young without a male partner, a phenomenon called parthenogenesis. The ...

A boa's caretaker hadn't realized the snake was pregnant, or female. Then 14 baby snakes showed up in the vivarium after a ...

For mammals, female self-sufficiency is not an option when it comes to reproduction. Parthenogenesis, asexual reproduction, is precluded by the need for two separate genomes with individual ...

Or she can lay eggs without having mated, through a sort of virgin birth process called parthenogenesis. In 2006 at England’s Chester Zoo, a female named Flora, who’d had no male contact ...

that are accustomed to sexual reproduction but capable of parthenogenesis. In W. virgo’s case, Hoffmann and colleagues suggest, parthenogenesis seemingly came with no such side effects. Genetic and ...

Charlotte, a stingray at the Aquarium and Shark Lab in Hendersonville, North Carolina, made headlines when she got pregnant.

This unusual phenomenon, known as parthenogenesis or 'virgin birth', continues to perplex scientists and captivate nature enthusiasts alike. Produced by Natalia Guerrero & Sanjana Bhambhani ...

Mayim Bialik, the neuroscientist who plays Dr Amy Farrah Fowler in The Big Bang Theory, posted the story on Facebook with the comment “Sending this zebra shark all kinds of props right now. Mad ...

This is due to a process of asexual reproduction known as parthenogenesis. This was only discovered in 2006, when a dragon called Flora mothered five baby dragons at Chester Zoo, despite never ...