I was reading about apomixis, (reproduction without the interaction of gametes) and found some interesting things. Dandelions for instance produce flowers and pollen that are useless to the plant. The flowers are evolutionary vestiges from ancetral plants that reproduced the usual way. The virgin whiptail lizard (Cnemidophorus neomexicanus) of the western United States has only females in its population. One female mounts and clasps another female, presumably to induce ovulation. Assuming that the lizards are diploid and their unfertilized eggs develop by mitotic oogenesis (without the reduction division of normal meiosis), then their offspring would be clones of each other.
Life on earth is never boring, it is always evolving into new and interesting things.