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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New research has revealed that an 11-year-old reticulated python named Thelma who resides at the Louisville Zoo in Kentucky produced six female offspring in June 2012 – without ever having come ...

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 ...