The vast majority of animals need to breed to reproduce. But a small subset of animals can have offspring without mating. The process, called parthenogenesis, allows creatures from honey bees to ...

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 ...

The first babies conceived in space were cockroaches. When they were born on Earth, scientists said the offspring were bigger, grew faster, ran faster, and took on a dark-red color. Credit: Ian Moore ...

The organs of a body are a spatial division of labour, one created by different genes being turned on or off in different cells. The same process serves to give individual lives a division of labour ...

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