"It really proves that life... uh... finds a way," said Shreveport Aquarium, Louisina's curator of live animals, Greg Barrick.

This process, known as parthenogenesis, gives rise to an all-female population ... chromosome copies – a concept known as the “Meselson effect.” Through the use of genome sequencing techniques, the ...

10 In humans, this miniature, preformed version of the fully-grown organism is known as the homunculus, a term also used to illustrate the contributions to sensory input and motor outputs of our ...

While sexual reproduction is the predominant strategy among animals, some species have evolved the ability to reproduce asexually ...

A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

Dr. Luis Buatois (Ph.D.) traces a series of hexagons with his finger, following the path carved by tiny organisms millions of ...

"How parthenogenesis kicks in or what cues the females use to begin the process remains to be discovered." The Shreveport Aquarium plans to seek confirmation through genetic testing once Yoko is ...