Researchers found a female zebra shark gave birth to pups through parthenogenesis, a.k.a. "virgin births" Melissa Montoya is an associate editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

A new zebra has arrived at a New Jersey zoo in hopes of coupling up with a lone stallion so that their species can continue on. Lydia, a 1-1/2-year-old Grant’s Zebra, arrived at the Cape May County ...

Large-scale aquaculture facilities require highly optimized husbandry protocols that maximize fecundity and embryo health while minimizing cost and effort. Although zebrafish are being increasingly ...

A new study suggests that some birds prioritize social information over visual evidence when making breeding choices. A new study in The Auk: Ornithological Advances suggests that some birds ...

A viral TikTok alleged the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden "successfully" crossbred a zebra with a giraffe. It then posed the question of whether or not the breeding was ethical. There's one small ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract 1. Opportunistic breeding (i.e. breeding whenever favourable conditions occur, regardless of interval or periodicity) is a strategy often ...