Are you familiar with asexual animals? Asexual animals reproduce without involving sex or traditional fertilization. While this might sound strange, it’s actually quite natural—and even helps many ...

Some animals are capable of parthenogenesis, a reproductive process in which females produce offspring without fertilization. This phenomenon has been documented in reptiles, sharks, birds, and ...

The Przewalski’s horse was once extinct in the wild in China. After 40 years of conservation work, its population has reached ...

Nature is full of wonders, and some of the most amazing surprises come from how animals reproduce. While most of us think that having babies always requires a male and a female, that’s not true for ...

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 ...

As the planet continues to warm due to global climate change, the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as heat waves, is rising. Heat waves are not just uncomfortable for humans; ...

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. For the first time, scientists ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

We take it for granted that humans find it more difficult to conceive as they grow older. But our recent study, which analyzed data from 157 animal species, found that male reproductive aging seems to ...

One of the wildest wonders of nature is the ability of some animals to reproduce by splitting in half. There is still so much we don’t know about this process. So the discovery of a ...