In sexual reproduction—the way most life-forms ... the asexually reproducing whiptail lizards that Baumann and his colleagues have been studying at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research ...

Animals that rely exclusively on parthenogenesis to reproduce, like the flowerpot snake, are called obligate parthenogens, ...

Unlike typical sexual reproduction, where male and female ... shortcut is rare among vertebrates, but some lizards, including certain whiptail and gecko species, have evolved to use it as their ...

Reproduction in animals varies from species to species ... Additionally, some reptiles, like the komodo dragon, are also ...

If asexual reproduction survives at all ... One such asexual organism is the whiptail lizard in the U.S. Southwest, Mexico, and South America, which consists only of females who reproduce by ...

There is no war between the sexes with the Colorado checkered whiptail. That’s because she’s always female. In dry canyons ...

Reproduction in animals varies from species ... Additionally, some reptiles, like the komodo dragon, are also parthenogenetic. Whiptail lizards and some boas have also been known to reproduce ...