Through genetic testing, zoo scientists discovered the newly hatched female, born on Aug. 24, 2016, had been produced through ...

Nearly three months after an aquarium in North Carolina announced that its stingray Charlotte is expecting, social media ...

In February, when an aquarium in North Carolina announced their round stingray, Charlotte, had become pregnant despite not ...

It has the tongue-twisting name "parthenogenesis." Kiessling: Parthenogenesis is the term that's applied to an egg that activates spontaneously on its own. This is relatively common in women.

Charlotte, a California round stingray, self-impregnated according to the Aquarium & Shark Lab by Team ECCO in Hendersonville ...

Or she can lay eggs without having mated, through a sort of virgin birth process called parthenogenesis. In 2006 at England’s Chester Zoo, a female named Flora, who’d had no male contact ...

Still no baby Jesus stingray to speak of as the Aquarium & Shark Lab in North Carolina show video of virgin Charlotte ...

According to the Aquarium and Shark Lab by Team ECCO in Hendersonville, North Carolina, Charlotte the stingray is continuing with parthenogenesis, or a form of asexual reproduction where she was ...

In a recent study published in Genome Biology and Evolution, titled "Identification of parthenogenesis-inducing effector proteins in Wolbachia," researchers from the University of Minnesota have ...

Western North Carolina has a stingray celebrity. Here's what we know about Charlotte the pregnant stingray's species, due ...

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 parthenogenesis. They appear to be the only known ...

Your support inspires us to continue our research in Elasmobranch Parthenogenesis." While many people watching the stingray's pregnancy were happy to hear a positive update, many others are ...