That was the first confirmation of parthenogenesis in captive Komodo dragons; scientists now believe it “happens very often,” says Gerardo Garcia, Chester Zoo’s curator of lower vertebrates ...

When no males are around, female Komodo dragons—like certain other lizards—are capable of parthenogenesis, a process in which ...

they can reproduce by themselves through a process called parthenogenesis. In the wild, male dragons live between 30 and 40 years, but females typically only live around 20 years. Komodo dragons ...

They are capable of ‘virgin birth’ Komodo dragons are one of the only ... This is due to a process of asexual reproduction known as parthenogenesis. This was only discovered in 2006, when ...

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 ...

But in Komodo dragons this method of reproduction can only produce male offspring. So a female living alone could give birth to a son by parthenogenesis, have sex with him and repopulate the area ...

The females of many complex and large animals, such as lizards, sharks or Komodo dragons, are able to reproduce without males, in a process called “parthenogenesis”. The term comes from Greek ...