Some species of whiptail lizards are comprised of only females that reproduce asexually. Some of these species are actually hybrids!
Source: Yong, Ed. "Extra chromosomes allow all-Female lizards to reproduce without males." Discover, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2010, blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/02/21/extra-chromosomes-allow-all-female-lizards-to-reproduce-without-males/#.WhSCk1WnHrc.
Hybrids can be fertile. Carrion and hooded crows mate quite a bit, but each species generally prefers to mate with its own kind.
Source: Singer, Emily. "How a Tiny Chunk of DNA Can Keep Two Species Apart." Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 5 Aug. 2014, .
Aphids are pregnant before they're even born!
Source: Stern, David L. "Aphids." NCBI, U.S. National Library of Medicine, 24 June 2008, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2974440/.
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