A queen ant in southern Europe has become the first known animal to consistently produce offspring that are members of a ...

Researchers have uncovered an unusual survival strategy in Iberian harvester ants that turns basic biology on its head: The ...

Researchers have uncovered an unusual survival strategy in Iberian harvester ants that turns basic biology on its head: The queens can produce eggs that develop into two different ant species. A team ...

When an animal parent has a child, both will belong to the same species. Humans beget humans, combfish beget combfish, and ...

Queen Iberian harvester ants can produce ants of their own species (left) and also that of a different cousin species (right). © Jonathan Romiguier Ant life can be ...

Biologists have long assumed a simple rule: a female produces offspring of her own species. It basically goes without saying; and yet, Messor ibericus has different ideas. Its queens lay two kinds of ...

Imagine a mum who can have children from two different species. Family gatherings would be interesting, to say the least. In the insect world, this is no joke. A new study published in Nature shows ...

Bizarrely, Iberian harvester ant queens lay eggs that turn into male builder harvester ants, and some of her offspring are ...