More animals can occasionally reproduce asexually through a process called parthenogenesis than scientists realized.

No males needed — animals that reproduce through the mind-blowing process of parthenogenesis.

Some female birds, reptiles and other animals can make a baby on their own. But for mammals like us, eggs and sperm need each other. Parthenogenesis could be the future for this California condor ...

Facultative parthenogenesis, which is what is being seen in these common smooth-hound sharks, allows an animal to reproduce both sexually and asexually, depending on the circumstances.

The common fruit fly normally needs a mate to reproduce. But scientists tinkering with its genes found the ones that can induce parthenogenesis, or virgin birth.

Key points: 'Virgin births' have been widely documented in animals like snakes and bees. However, this is the first evidence of parthenogenesis in a crocodile.

Researchers were able to pinpoint the genes that control fruit fly parthenogenesis — the scientific term for virgin birth in animals.

A female stingray recently fell pregnant, despite having no male companions in her tank. What are "virgin births" and why are they happening more frequently for animals in captivity?

But those offspring were made by tinkering with egg cells in laboratory dishes rather than by giving female animals the capacity for virgin birth, also known as parthenogenesis .

A stingray in Hendersonville is about to give birth through parthenogenesis, according to expert, who says it's impossible for shark to mate with ray.

The female epaulette shark was never housed with a male shark but produced a fertile egg, apparently via a process known as parthenogenesis.

Booth — who has studied parthenogenesis for more than a decade — is the person that others in the reptilian world tend to call when they suspect an animal has reproduced without mating.