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This fish species survived 100,000 years without males. Scientists thought it should be long dead – but it's thriving (opens in new tab)

All-female species have been long thought of as evolutionary dead ends – but one fish has defied the odds to live without males, revealing new clues to how genomes stay healthy.

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