The vast majority of animals need to breed to reproduce. But a small subset of animals can have offspring without mating. The process, called parthenogenesis, allows creatures from honey bees to ...

In the framework of an international research project, a team of scientists have demonstrated for the first time that asexual reproduction can be successful in the long term. The animal they studied ...

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In an astounding case, researchers have found that an egg laid in 2018 by a female crocodile living alone in a Costa Rica zoo was not only fertile, it also contained genetics only from its mother. In ...