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

Some animals do reproduce by parthenogenesis—some forms of insects do, for instance. But there's no parthenogenetic development in any mammal that's known. NOVA scienceNOW: Given that these ...

He noticed a pattern for organisms undergoing parthenogenesis: animal species that use a ZW system have only male (ZZ) offspring, and the organisms that use an XY system have only female (XX) ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. The findings contrast with previous studies of cloning in animals. Ryder, for one, has studied parthenogenesis among condors, but in that case ...

On seven Indonesian islands that are the only places the species lives in the wild, humans burn its habitat to clear land and poach animals on ... through a sort of virgin birth process called ...

Trained detection dogs work with conservationists to sniff out tracks from endangered animals or potential threats like invasive species or signs of poachers. Many of these canine conservation ...