Tag: Reproduction
Virgin births from parthenogenesis: How females from some species can reproduce...
Mercedes Burns, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
An Asian water dragon hatched from an egg at the Smithsonian National Zoo, and her keepers were shocked....
Bloodthirsty tsetse flies nurse their young, one live birth at a...
Geoff Attardo, University of California, Davis
Tsetse flies are bloodthirsty. Natives of sub-Saharan Africa, tsetse flies can transmit the microbe Trypanosoma when they take a...
What is sex really for?
Richard Gunderman, Indiana University
Few topics arouse as much interest and controversy as sex. This is hardly surprising. The biological continuance of the species hinges...
