The flowerpot snake (Indotyphlops braminus) is known as the world's only obligate parthenogenetic snake, reproducing ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. In recent years, more and more instances of parthenogenesis have emerged as “virgin births” in crocodiles, condors, and king cobras. While these ...

Those molecular samples have now revealed something completely unexpected: two of the California condor females produced young without a male partner, a phenomenon called parthenogenesis. The ...

For mammals, female self-sufficiency is not an option when it comes to reproduction. Parthenogenesis, asexual reproduction, is precluded by the need for two separate genomes with individual ...

Or she can lay eggs without having mated, through a sort of virgin birth process called parthenogenesis. In 2006 at England’s Chester Zoo, a female named Flora, who’d had no male contact ...

Scientists are studying whether a phenomenon called parthenogenesis, a rare form of asexual reproduction, or delayed fertilization, where fertilization occurs long after mating, could have occurred.