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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Noise pollution is one of the leading environmental health risks in humans. In zebra finches, noise affects their health and the growth of their offspring: Researchers found that traffic noise ...

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 ...

If you're like most people, you don’t think of zebras when you think of endangered species. But this species of zebra, the Grévy’s zebra, is threatened due to habitat loss and poaching or illegal ...