This fish species survived 100,000 years without males. Scientists thought it should be long dead – but it's thriving

All-female species have been long thought of as evolutionary dead ends – but one fish has defied the odds to live without ...
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Meet the Amazon molly: A fish species that has lived 100,000 years without males

A tiny river fish, the Amazon molly, has survived 100,000 years without males, revealing alternative ways life maintains ...
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Amazon molly fish survives 100,000 years without males

In the rivers of Mexico and southern Texas in the United States, a silvery-scaled fish swims that seems, according to ...

Asexual lizards, virgin births and clones—the all‑female species of the animal kingdom

It may sound too bizarre to be true, but the Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa), a fish that inhabits rivers, lakes, and swamps ...
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Mizzou team discovers what makes all-female fish species a scientific ‘miracle’

University of Missouri researchers have shown how an all-female fish species called the Amazon molly defies the long-held belief that asexual reproduction is an evolutionary dead end. The key is gene ...