The first documented “virgin birth” by a Burmese python, the world’s longest snake, was recorded in 2012 at the Louisville ...

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The Brahminy blind snake is a small, non-poisonous snake from Southeast Asia that reproduces asexually. It mainly feeds on ...

Marine biologists at the University of Gothenburg have identified what may be the world’s largest known clonal organism—a ...

Scientists discovered a massive clone specimen of seaweed a known as bladderwrack along the coast of Sweden, stretching some ...

Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball is full of accomplished martial artists, but there are several fights that throw away martial ...

The rotifers were frozen in permafrost in a long-term cryptobiotic state. Lessons from these and other revived organisms could help farms on Mars. We promise this isn’t as sinister as it sounds: ...

It’s also the animal that builds that structure: an anemone-like polyp less than a centimeter long. By building calcium carbonate cups one on top of another and budding asexually, polyps collectively ...

There are over 1,000 species of sea anemones living in our oceans. They live specifically in salt water and can be anywhere from under an inch wide to several feet across. Each species has its own ...

Anemones reproduce asexually by cloning themselves, literally splitting themselves in half. “They're super clonal, so they're going to exclude native species that are trying to recruit to the ...

As commercial Cavendish bananas are sterile and lack seeds, they are reproduced asexually via cloning, whereby new plants are grown from parts of an existing plant. This means that traditional methods ...

The Komodo dragon, one of nature’s most formidable predators, has the ability to reproduce asexually through parthenogenesis, a remarkable survival strategy. Photo by Timon Cornelissen via pexels The ...