Scientists at the Louisville Zoo in Kentucky are trying to solve a new evolutionary mystery after a female python gave birth to several healthy babies, despite having no contact with a male for ...

Two years after giving birth, Thelma the reticulated python is shown to be the sole parent.

Scientists at the Louisville Zoo in Kentucky are trying to solve a new evolutionary mystery after a female python gave birth to several healthy babies, despite having no contact with a male for ...

Although a facultative parthenogenesis — or virgin birth, to the layperson — in a reticulated python had never been recorded before Thelma, who’s now 11 years old, McMahan said it’s ...

Scientists at the Louisville Zoo in Kentucky are trying to solve a new evolutionary mystery after a female python gave birth to several healthy babies, despite having no contact with a male for ...

Scientists at the Louisville Zoo in Kentucky are trying to solve a new evolutionary mystery after a female python gave birth to several healthy babies, despite having no contact with a male for ...

Scientists at the Louisville Zoo in Kentucky are trying to solve a new evolutionary mystery after a female python gave birth to several healthy babies, despite having no contact with a male for ...

Ready your myrrh, folks: A reticulated python named Thelma has given birth to six little miracles of science. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The ...

First Recorded Virgin Birth in a Python | RealClearScienceAn 11-year-old reticulated python named Thelma produced six female offspring in June 2012 at the Louisville Zoo in Kentucky, where she lives ...

Not the world's largest snakes, and the Louisville Zoo has the reticulated python to prove it. Zoo officials said Thursday that one of their female reticulated pythons, Thelma, gave birth to six ...