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 queens can produce eggs that develop into two different ant species.

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 ...

Some of the eggs laid by Iberian harvester ant queens contain males of another species, the builder harvester ant – and these males father all of the workers in the colony. “This statement sounds ...

Some ant queens can produce offspring of more than one species – even when the other species is not known to exist in the nearby wild. No other animal on Earth is known to do this, and it's hard for ...

Iberian harvester ant queens exhibit xenoparous reproduction, a unique phenomenon where they produce hybrid worker ants by utilizing sperm from another species, Messor structor. This allows the queens ...

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 ...

Roblox has become one of the most popular video games of all time, but it has a darker side, where hate speech and racism are reportedly spreading unchecked. The online platform enables users to ...

Designed in the early 1930s, the ANT-9 was a symbol of the USSR’s push to modernize its air travel infrastructure and showcase its engineering. Alleged drug boat from Venezuela turning back when hit, ...

Britain’s Queen Camilla once fended off the unwanted advances of a man on a train, according to a new book, which reveals that she told the story of how she took off her shoe “and whacked him in the ...