A team led by biologists at The University of Texas at Arlington has published a study supporting the theory that species that reproduce asexually have more harmful genetic mutations than those ...

Whiptail lizards are a fairly ordinary-looking bunch, but some species are among the strangest animals around. You might not be able to work out why at first glance, but looking at their genes soon ...

A team led by biologists at The University of Texas at Arlington has published a study supporting the theory that species that reproduce asexually have more harmful genetic mutations than those ...

is a freelance science journalist, podcast host, comics artist, and TV host. This column is part of a series where Verge staffers post highly subjective reviews of animals. Up until now, we’ve written ...

This story appears in the November 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. In sexual reproduction—the way most life-forms procreate—each parent provides half an offspring’s chromosomes. Over ...

How all-female species avoid the shrinkage of their gene pool is among the animal kingdom’s great mysteries. Now biologists think they’ve discovered the trick. According to a study published Sunday in ...