Imagine a world where mothers don’t need fathers to create life—a world where females alone carry the spark of the next ...

Syngenta Biotechnology China-led research, with partners in the U.S., France, the UK, Chile, the Netherlands, Argentina, and across China, has discovered that sunflowers can form viable haploid seeds ...

The flowerpot snake (Indotyphlops braminus) is known as the world's only obligate parthenogenetic snake, reproducing exclusively through all-female parthenogenesis. This small snake has become widely ...

Here are eight animals who reproduce without sexually engaging with their opposite sex. Females have been observed laying eggs without male contact, demonstrating parthenogenesis. These lizards are an ...

钩盲蛇是世界上已知最小的蛇类之一，因其体形微小，常随植物贸易中的花盆土壤被广泛传播，因此也被称为“花盆蛇”。钩盲蛇有点像蚯蚓，不过其独特的繁殖方式引起科学家的好奇 ...

How ancient DNA analysis revealed that unusually bound medieval books are covered in sealskin, and top quarks and their ...

The “tiny” snake is often mistaken for an earthworm and is being shipped globally unintentionally in the root balls of ...

The flowerpot blindsnake reproduces through a process called triploid parthenogenesis — a type of reproduction that does not require sperm. It is the only known snake species to reproduce ...