She may be one of the most unique sharks ever recorded, thanks to a rare reproductive process called parthenogenesis—a phenomenon where an animal reproduces without the involvement of a male.

These remarkable reptiles reproduce through parthenogenesis, laying unfertilized eggs that develop into exact genetic clones of themselves. What’s particularly fascinating is that despite the absence ...

The first mice to be created from two fathers, a phenomenon known as androgenesis, have now produced healthy offspring for the first time. Researchers implanted two sperm in an egg with its ...

Lately, Shannon LaDeau and her colleagues have had unwelcome visitors at their office in New York’s Hudson Valley: ticks, crawling up the building and trying to get through doors. “Which is ...