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Scientists have just discovered that female American crocodiles can produce offspring without males—a phenomenon known as facultative parthenogenesis, or “virgin birth." Such asexual reproduction in ...

An Asian water dragon hatched from an egg at the Smithsonian National Zoo, and her keepers were shocked. Why? Her mother had never been with a male water dragon. Through genetic testing, zoo ...

A North Carolina aquarium that said it had a pregnant stingray with no male companion now says the fish has a rare reproductive disease. A team of ecologists and evolutionary biologists at the ...

Charlotte, arguably the world’s most famous stingray, has a disease, aquarium staff have announced. In February, the Aquarium and Shark Lab by Team ECCO in Hendersonville, North Carolina, reported the ...