In Telford's Exotic Zoo, life found a way. A casque-headed iguana has given birth to eight babies at the Shropshire wildlife park – without any contact with a male, via a phenomenon called ...

In the animal kingdom, reproduction is a necessary part of species survival. Parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction where embryos develop from unfertilized eggs, has been observed in captive ...

Plant reproduction is highly complex and variable across the kingdom. The emergence of sexual reproduction has contributed to increase plant genetic diversity and enabled the colonisation of new ...

A Yemeni man never charged by the U.S. details 19 months of brutality and psychological torture -- the first in-depth, first-person account from inside the secret U.S. prisons. A Salon exclusive.

While sexual reproduction is the predominant strategy among animals, some species have evolved the ability to reproduce asexually through parthenogenesis. In these species, females can produce ...

Then in 2002, a bonnethead shark pup suddenly appeared in a tank containing three female bonnetheads, a male leopard shark and a stingray in a zoo in Nebraska. Scientists concluded the pup was the ...

Plants show remarkable developmental plasticity owing to their high regeneration capacity. A totipotent plant cell is one that can grow autonomously into embryos and whole plants in vitro. Somatic ...

Officials at a North Carolina aquarium are anxiously awaiting the birth of sting ray pups – and trying to determine how, exactly, Charlotte got pregnant. The ray lives at the Aquarium & Shark Lab by ...