If you've ever had a spiny leaf insect as a pet, or you're considering getting one, hopefully someone has warned you about this: if you put one in your enclosure, you might come back some time later ...

In the framework of an international research project, a team of scientists have demonstrated for the first time that asexual reproduction can be successful in the long term. The animal they studied ...

In the course of evolution, animals have repeatedly shifted from sexual to asexual reproduction. The first evidence of the consequences of parthenogenesis – a type of asexual reproduction – on genome ...

In a closer examination of how D. pachys reproduces, the research team found that, like many other asexual organisms, the process of making germ cells -- sperm or ova -- had been modified to prevent ...

BOSTON — It took more than a half-dozen staffers at the New England Aquarium to lift and examine the 12-foot-long patient on the towel-lined table. Giving an anaconda her OB/GYN and general health ...

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As much as 6 percent of people are intersex, having chromosomes, gonads, and/or genitals that do not fit neatly into a male or female category. For this and other reasons, human biology is not binary.

Stick insects that reproduce asexually cannot adapt as quickly in the course of evolution as sexually reproducing species, leading to a decrease in biological diversity, according to new research. An ...

Does all the stress of finding a partner get you down? Do you ever wish you could just start a family of your own, with kids that looked just like you, but without all of the trouble of finding ...