{"id":128132,"date":"2021-09-26T21:22:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T04:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/scientists-discover-creature-that-never-has-sex"},"modified":"2021-09-26T21:22:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T04:22:24","slug":"scientists-discover-creature-that-never-has-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/scientists-discover-creature-that-never-has-sex","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover Creature That Never Has Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-creature-that-never-has-sex.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have discovered how an ancient species of beetle has survived without having sex.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>Oppiella nova<\/i> is a species of all female \u201cancient asexual\u201d beetle mites, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.uni-koeln.de\/en\/universitaet\/aktuell\/press-releases\/single-news\/some-animal-species-can-survive-successfully-without-sexual-reproduction\" class=\"\"> press release<\/a> from the University of Cologne. For years, scientists have struggled to figure out how exactly the creatures reproduce and survive despite not having sex. At one point, they hypothesized that the beetle mites occasionally produce a reproductive male by accident (a la \u201cJurassic Park\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Now, they have cracked the elusive puzzle: the beetles can create clones of itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered how an ancient species of beetle has survived without having sex. The Oppiella nova is a species of all female \u201cancient asexual\u201d beetle mites, according to a press release from the University of Cologne. For years, scientists have struggled to figure out how exactly the creatures reproduce and survive despite not having [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}