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 ...

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The California condor is one of the rarest birds in the world, but now it seems that nature is giving it an unexpected leg-up. Scientists have discovered two condor chicks that were born from ...

Nature is full of wonders, and some of the most amazing surprises come from how animals reproduce. While most of us think ...

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The reason why, in terms of evolution, organisms have sex may seem rather obvious – they do it to reproduce. Clearly, natural selection must favour individuals who can reproduce over those who can’t.

A leopard shark in a Queensland aquarium has shocked scientists by being the first in the world to give birth without a male, after previously mating in the usual way. The shark at Townsville's Reef ...

Sexual reproduction is the production of a new organism from two parents by making use of their sex cells or gametes. The humans, fish, frogs, cats and dogs, all reproduce by the method of sexual ...

In Mother Nature's edition of the TV reality show Survivor, the bdelloid rotifers would probably be the last animals standing. These tiny aquatic creatures can survive high blasts of radiation and ...

Fractofusus fossils The earliest evidence for reproduction in a complex organism had two surprisingly sophisticated modes of reproduction. The creatures, known as rangeomorphs, lived 565 million years ...