Motherhood is entirely possible at the age 74—for some birds at least. A Laysan albatross ( Phoebastria immutabilis) named ...

Welcome to ‘Animals That Reproduce Asexually’ Our expert-vetted content is grounded in current scientific publications, yet ...

Asexual reproduction, by contrast, dispenses with the entire business of genetic sorting. Whereas sexually reproducing animals need to spend a lot of time and energy searching for and courting a ...

In sexual reproduction, offspring are produced from two parents, where generally the sperm from a male combines with the egg from a female, and develops into a new individual. Almost all animals ...

This big egg belongs to an ostrich. Some animals, like lizards, lay much smaller eggs and much more of them. During sexual reproduction a sperm from the male joins with an egg from the female.

In sexual reproduction, offspring are produced from two parents, where generally the sperm from a male combines with the egg from a female, and develops into a new individual. Almost all animals ...

“The grandmother hypothesis is that somehow aged but non-reproductive animals are positively affecting the reproduction of a species just by their presence,” explains Clark. Older members of a ...

How? These animals are among a handful of species that can choose to reproduce sexually or asexually. In other words, they can reproduce with a partner or totally on their own. This is known as ...

Birds do it, and bees do it. Indeed, researchers estimate that over 99.9% of eukaryotes reproduce sexually. What, then, are the true costs and benefits of sex? Yet again, this simple example ...