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 ...

Issued by: European Society for Domestic Animal Reproduction, European Veterinary Society of Small Animal Reproduction and Spanish Society of Animal Reproduction ...

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 ...

In times of desperation, female sawtooth sharks have been known to reproduce sans males. For other species, solo reproduction is downright vanilla. blickwinkel / Alamy When it comes to getting ...

Lucinda Aulsebrook does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Theories about how animals became multicellular are shifting as researchers find greater complexity in our single-celled ancestors. From one came many. Some 700 million years ago, a single cell gave ...

Stick insects that reproduce asexually cannot adapt as quickly in the course of evolution as sexually reproducing species, leading to a decrease in biological diversity, according to new research. An ...