Not all creatures need to breed to produce offspring. Animals like zebra sharks and killifish are redefining what scientists thought they knew about asexual reproduction. Among vertebrates, or animals ...

Sexual reproduction is the production of a new organism from two parents by making use of their sex cells or gametes. In this process male gametes fuses with a female gamete to form a new cell called ...

In Telford's Exotic Zoo, life found a way. A casque-headed iguana has given birth to eight babies at the Shropshire wildlife park – without any contact with a male, via a phenomenon called ...

In a recent and historic breakthrough, scientists managed to reproduce rats without the need for male sperm, an important milestone that opens the question about the future of genetics and the ...

The organs of a body are a spatial division of labour, one created by different genes being turned on or off in different cells. The same process serves to give individual lives a division of labour ...