Can a small fish help identify possible treatments for an ultra-rare inherited disease found in an Alabama boy? The genetic ...

XMEA is a recessive, genetic disease that causes progressive muscle weakness. Can a small fish help identify possible ...

A more extraordinary explanation is parthenogenesis—a rare type of ... bamboo shark reached sexual maturity, including the zebrafish mentioned in the previous section, which died very young.

It is more likely that Charlotte became pregnant through a form of asexual reproduction called parthenogenesis. Fox News Digital also spoke to National Geographic senior editor Christine Dell ...

The process is called parthenogenesis, from the Greek words for “virgin” and “birth.” Some plants and insects can do it, as well as some amphibians, reptiles, birds and fish. A stingray ...

Scientists have just discovered that female American crocodiles can produce offspring without males—a phenomenon known as facultative parthenogenesis, or “virgin birth." Such asexual ...

Certain animals like sharks and snakes are capable of producing healthy offspring without ever mating, through a process known as parthenogenesis. Recently in the US, Charlotte the stingray ...

But scientists tinkering with its genes found the ones that can induce parthenogenesis, or virgin birth. For the first time, scientists tinkering with fruit fly genes have succeeded in inducing ...

But for mammals like us, eggs and sperm need each other. Parthenogenesis could be the future for this California condor species, but not for any mammals you know.Credit...San Diego Zoo Wildlife ...