Explore the incredible science of parthenogenesis, a natural reproductive process where some animals can produce offspring without males. From reptiles to insects, discover how nature adapts in ...

A boa constrictor in the U.K. gave birth to 14 babies — without a mate. Is it a miracle? The result of a secret rendezvous? Probably not. Females of species have the ability to reproduce asexually, ...

Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington and research institutes in China and Myanmar studied flowerpot snakes to see how parthenogenesis works in these reptiles. Alexander Murray ...

After cold winters, invertebrates such as honeybees and paper wasps seem to disappear and then suddenly return in large ...

Scott Adams, director of the Exotic Zoo, holds a casque-headed iguana. Eight hatchlings were produced at the zoo this summer without a father. Exotic Zoo The birth of iguana babies is presumably not ...

Syngenta Biotechnology China-led research, with partners in the U.S., France, the UK, Chile, the Netherlands, Argentina, and across China, has discovered that sunflowers can form viable haploid seeds ...

Charlotte, arguably the world’s most famous stingray, has a disease, aquarium staff have announced. In February, the Aquarium and Shark Lab by Team ECCO in Hendersonville, North Carolina, reported the ...