All Amazon mollies (Poecilia formosa) are female and reproduce exclusively asexually, giving live birth to clones of themselves. Manfred Schartl When an Amazon molly says she doesn't need a man, ...

Are you familiar with asexual animals? Asexual animals reproduce without involving sex or traditional fertilization. While this might sound strange, it’s actually quite natural—and even helps many ...

image: An international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of the Amazon molly, a fish that reproduces asexually. The researchers expected that the asexual organism would be at a genetic ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

University of Missouri researchers have shown how an all-female fish species called the Amazon molly defies the long-held belief that asexual reproduction is an evolutionary dead end. The key is gene ...

In times of desperation, female sawtooth sharks have been known to reproduce sans males. For other species, solo reproduction is downright vanilla. blickwinkel / Alamy When it comes to getting ...

Thousands of species produce genetically identical (clonal) offspring through asexual reproduction 1. However, asexual reproduction is much less common than sexual reproduction is, partly because it ...

If you've ever had a spiny leaf insect as a pet, or you're considering getting one, hopefully someone has warned you about this: if you put one in your enclosure, you might come back some time later ...