In the animal kingdom, reproduction is a necessary part of species survival. Learn about 12 animals that reproduce asexually and don't need a mate.

Asexual animals reproduce without involving sex or traditional fertilization. ... are asexual. Their reproduction involves splitting into two parts and forming two new worms with the same DNA makeup.

Among vertebrates, or animals with backbones, asexual reproduction is more rare. However, California condors, New Mexico whiptail lizards and certain fish all reproduce via a process known as ...

Some animals, like Komodo dragons and sharks, were found to reproduce without mating, a process termed parthenogenesis. California condors, stick insects, blind snakes, tardigrades, and some fish ...

Asexual Reproducers: For most living things, sexual reproduction has proven the best overall strategy to perpetuate a species in the rough-and-tumble, unpredictable fray of natural selection.With ...

Green anacondas are on a lengthening list of animals able to give birth without a mate. The more animals in which biologists discover asexual reproduction, the more they are rethinking the basics ...

Some animals, like Komodo dragons and sharks, were found to reproduce without mating, a process termed parthenogenesis. California condors, stick insects, blind snakes, tardigrades, and some fish ...

In a study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, they used "Amazon" algae to shed light on the phenotypic and genetic consequences of the shift from sexual to asexual reproduction. Phys.org ...

The common fruit fly normally needs a mate to reproduce. But scientists tinkering with its genes found the ones that can induce parthenogenesis, or virgin birth. For the first time, scientists ...

Bdelloid rotifers are ancient, asexual, oddballs. The teeny-tiny freshwater animals have seemingly persisted without sex, and the evolutionary advantages it brings, for an estimated 25 million years .