It has the tongue-twisting name "parthenogenesis." Kiessling: Parthenogenesis is the term that's applied to an egg that activates spontaneously on its own. This is relatively common in women.

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 ...

The first documented “virgin birth” by a Burmese python, the world’s longest snake, was recorded in 2012 at the Louisville ...

Or she can lay eggs without having mated, through a sort of virgin birth process called parthenogenesis. In 2006 at England’s Chester Zoo, a female named Flora, who’d had no male contact ...

So what happened? According to the aquarium, there are two possible explanations for the miraculous birth: parthenogenesis or delayed fertilization. Parthenogenesis is a form of asexual ...

This unusual phenomenon, known as parthenogenesis or 'virgin birth', continues to perplex scientists and captivate nature enthusiasts alike. Produced by Natalia Guerrero & Sanjana Bhambhani The ...

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Two possible explanations were proposed: either parthenogenesis occurred, allowing a female to produce offspring on her own, or delayed fertilization, where eggs are fertilized long after mating.