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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 .

Her logic goes like this: For most animals, sexual reproduction is a better option than parthenogenesis. It gives their babies more diverse genes, and that makes them stronger.

The flowerpot snake has three sets of chromosomes and turns of genes that may help its asexual reproduction. Watch live: Army celebrates 250 years with parade. ... Virgin birth in the animal kingdom.