Without a mate, the snappy reptile cut out the middleman and reproduced by herself, in a process scientists call parthenogenesis, or "virgin birth".

WILD NATURE Stringray's 'virgin' pregnancy: How some species can get pregnant without mating Parthenogenesis is a form of asexual reproduction that can occur in fish and reptile species ...

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 ...

Matthew Moreira, who co-authored the paper entitled Parthenogenesis is self-destructive for scaled reptiles published in Biology Letters in 2021, told Salon via email that parthenogenesis can be a ...

Then he published a paper about parthenogenesis in one species, and suddenly snake breeders and researchers started sending him specimens and accounts of parthenogenesis from all kinds of reptile ...

Parthenogenesis is difficult to confirm in wild animals without genetic testing. And many zookeepers or people who keep reptiles as pets often assume the eggs produced are infertile and destroy them ...

In 2019, she gave birth to a dozen and a half snakelets in the Amazon reptile exhibit. Genetic testing (and doubling-checking the sexes of the aquarium’s other anacondas) confirmed she had ...

Then there are the reptiles, including Komodo dragons and other clever girls, that have been found to reproduce this way. Last year, scientists reported parthenogenesis in an American crocodile.

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.

A female American crocodile has spent her entire life in captivity in a reptile park in Costa Rica and just laid several fertile eggs — without mating first. This recent event means that researchers ...