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

Somehow, queen ants can mate with males of another species and clone them, producing eggs from another species entirely.

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

Scientists have revealed that queen ants in southern Europe can produce male clones of a completely different species.

When the researchers peered inside colonies of the Iberian harvester ant, they found two types of ant that looked very ...

Some ant queens can produce offspring of more than one species – even when the other species is not known to exist in the ...

A species of ant found scurrying across southern Europe is the first animal found that clones males of another species.

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

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

Queen Iberian harvester ants are capable of storing and cloning the sperm from a cousin species, spawning hybrid offspring to ...

Iberian harvester ant queens exhibit xenoparous reproduction, a unique phenomenon where they produce hybrid worker ants by ...

The research was published in the journal Nature earlier this month. It was carried out by a team of international scientists ...