For 16 years, a female crocodile lived alone in a wildlife park in Costa Rica — until one day, more than a dozen eggs mysteriously appeared in her enclosure. 'Virgin births' have been widely ...

Parthenogenesis, sometimes called "virgin birth," has been observed in at least 80 species, mostly fish and reptiles, Dell’Amore said. Some species that can experience virgin birth include ...

Some reptile keepers have claimed parthenogenesis, only to find out later that their female snakes just mated years earlier. “Reptiles have an incredible ability to store sperm,” Booth says. Dwyer and ...

Observing parthenogenesis in crocodiles is a fascinating discovery, Booth said, because the method they use is strikingly similar to that of birds and other reptiles. “They are all using the ...

(How some animals have ‘virgin births’: Parthenogenesis explained ... particular importance because of where crocodilians, or reptiles that belong to the order Crocodilia, which includes ...

The act of reptile reproduction suggests that dinosaurs and pterosaurs may have been capable of parthenogenesis, too, much like the creatures in “Jurassic Park.” By Veronique Greenwood In ...

The phenomenon, scientifically speaking, is called parthenogenesis ... It is just too easy for the giant reptiles to breed in captivity — and too difficult for staffers to raise or rehome ...

Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington and research institutes in China and Myanmar studied flowerpot snakes to see how parthenogenesis works in these reptiles. (Alexander Murray ...

Some female birds, reptiles and other animals can make a baby on their own. But for mammals like us, eggs and sperm need each other. Parthenogenesis could be the future for this California condor ...

The female fetus – which died at full-term – is a near genetic replica of its mother, a healthy adult kept in an isolated enclosure in a Costa Rican reptile park for 16 years. Parthenogenesis ...

The reptiles and amphibians are dead and preserved ... uses the collection to study parthenogenesis, a wacky way that certain female whiptail lizards reproduce by cloning themselves.