Most recently, a study on the endangered common smooth-hound shark has documented recurrent parthenogenesis, thereby expanding the spectrum of vertebrates known to utilise this reproductive ...

So all sorts of vertebrates seem to at least be capable of knocking themselves up through parthenogenesis. But again: Why? On this week’s episode of Unexplainable, Vox’s science podcast ...

Parthenogenesis, which means "virgin creation" in Greek, occurs mainly in some jawed vertebrates, but is unnatural for mammals, according to the National Institutes of Health. It may occur in ...

Parthenogenesis is quite common in insects, such as mayflies, although it is rarer in vertebrates. Since a captive bonnethead shark gave birth in 2001, more cases have been reported in sharks and ...

Like all known cases of parthenogenesis in vertebrates, the embryo formed when the egg fused with one of its own by-products called the second polar body, meaning it had two copies of the mother ...

Parthenogenesis, sometimes called "virgin ... "For more advanced animals like vertebrates, scientists think that the ability to reproduce asexually came about as a last-ditch effort for species ...

Polar bodies usually wither away. But in vertebrates that can perform parthenogenesis, one polar body sometimes fuses with the egg, creating a cell with the necessary complement of chromosomes to ...

A response to 'when all else fails' Parthenogenesis is considered uncommon in vertebrates, but in recent decades it has been observed in more than 80 species of animals including birds ...

ISTOCK/GETTY IMAGES PLUS/Giuseppe Esposito, Scientific Reports 2024 "Many different types of parthenogenesis have been described in each vertebrate taxon, except mammals," the authors wrote.

The aquarium says Yoko's birth could be the result of either delayed fertilization or parthenogenesis ... been seen in certain kinds of plants and vertebrates. Kevin Feldheim, the Pritzker ...