Science and technology channel of sihai.com, January 28 - with a female Python named Thelma in the United States giving birth to 61 eggs and hatching six healthy offspring, asexual reproduction in extreme environment has also aroused great interest of scientists. In amphibians, reptiles, cartilaginous fishes, teleost fishes and birds, the Parthenogenesis of mammals has become a subject that scientists pay close attention to.
Parthenogenesis, also known as parthenogenesis, means that eggs can develop into normal new individuals without fertilization. Parthenogenesis is a common reproductive phenomenon in some primitive animal species. In short, a single female can reproduce by duplicating her own DNA without male. Parthenogenesis has been recorded in many species, even in hammerhead shark, a primitive cartilaginous fish.
According to the research of scientists, parthenogenesis is actually very likely a very old way of vertebrate reproduction, and maybe mammals can also do it. Although there is no case of natural parthenogenesis in mammals, a large number of scientists have begun to study the reproductive system of mammals. Perhaps one day in the future, mammals will bring us a great surprise and discovery.