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This walking shark just gave birth to a shark pup — without a male mate around for the past four years!
Upon reaching sexual maturity at seven, the Brookfield Zoo shark began producing 2-4 eggs monthly, …
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Fin-bidden love: A shark might have just impregnated a stingray in captivity!
When the folks at TEAM ECCO's aquarium and shark lab in North Carolina noticed Charlotte's bulked-u…
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A lone stingray mysteriously became pregnant in an aquarium. Scientists now think a male shark could be responsible.
North Carolina aquarium staff were puzzled by when a stingray became pregnant in a male-free tank.
Alia Shoaib
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Scientists say they have induced 'virgin births' in fruit flies for the first time by switching on the right genes
For the first time researchers were able to induce parthenogenesis, or asexual reproduction without…
Marta Biino
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A shark pup that can 'walk' and was asexually conceived was just born at a Chicago-area zoo
The zoo, located just outside of Chicago, welcomed the pup on August 23 — but her mother had …
Sebastian Cahill
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A 46,000-year-old worm found in Siberian permafrost was brought back to life, and started having babies
Scientists on Thursday published a paper identifying and naming the worm, which they said belonged …
Rebecca Cohen,Jenny McGrath
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A crocodile makes history with the first-ever virgin birth of its species, researchers say. But none of the 14 eggs hatched much to scientists' disappointment.
Researchers said the 18-year-old crocodile lived alone in an exhibit at Parque Reptilandia in Costa…
Kelly McLaughlin
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Scientists have revived 'zombie' bugs and viruses before that were trapped in ancient ice. One may have been 8 million years old.
Scientists have previously revived ancient bacteria and prehistoric viruses that had been trapped i…
Marianne Guenot
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A baby shark born in all-female tank could be a rare case of a 'virgin birth'
The baby shark's mother had been in a tank in an aquarium in Sardinia, Italy, with one other female…
Alia Shoaib
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Rare video footage of a tardigrade threesome that lasted 30 minutes documents the wild sex lives of water bears
One of the first video recordings of tardigrade group sex reveals the unusual way tardigrades mate …
Crystal Raypole
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A surprising number of animals can reproduce without sex
Here are the animals that are capable of having offspring that's genetically all theirs. (Spoiler a…
Lydia Ramsey
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Virgin births really happen - here are the animals that prove it
It's something called parthenogenesis, which basically just means reproduction without fertilizatio…