Who needs Tinder when you can reproduce on your own? Not female smalltooth sawfish. These shark-like creatures can make babies asexually, according to a new study in Current Biology. The find marks ...

The evolution of sex remains one of biology's greatest puzzles. While sexual reproduction dominates across the animal kingdom ...

"Virgin birth" among animals may not be a rare, last-resort, save-the-species stopgap after all. For the first time, animal mothers, specifically pit vipers, have been discovered spawning fatherless ...

In a surprising development in marine biology, recurrent parthenogenesis has been documented for the first time in the shark Mustelus mustelus, also known as the common smooth-hound. This discovery, ...

Fishermen don’t like sawfish. Species of sawfish, a type of ray, can get caught up in fishing gear and damage it. Sometimes, the fish accidentally hurt the fishermen. So it’s no surprise that ...

For the second time in two years, a female yellow-bellied water snake in Missouri reproduced on her own, a rare occurence called parthenogenesis For the second time in two years, a captive snake in ...

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