Living organisms have good reason for engaging in sexual, rather than asexual, reproduction according to scientists.

Some organizations have been founded for people who proclaim themselves asexual, and this lifestyle is well on the way to becoming yet another "choice" in the smorgasbord of sexual interests.

Scientists tinkering with fruit fly genes have succeeded in inducing virgin birth in an animal that normally reproduces sexually.

Studies by scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara show that sexual reproduction wins out, in an evolutionary sense, over asexual reproduction in a major study that included 34 ...

So-called "virgin births," or asexual reproduction, may not be that uncommon among vertebrates. Take Thelma, a reticulated python at the Louisville Zoo who gave birth to six baby pythons without a ...

A shark born at Italy's Acquario Cala Gonone could be the first case of asexual reproduction in its species.

Parthenogenesis -- a natural form of asexual reproduction -- is something that's common amongst plant species, insects, amphibians and many other life forms. Meaning "virgin creation" in Greek, it ...