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

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 are capable of storing and cloning the sperm from a cousin species, spawning hybrid offspring to take on the hard work of keeping the colony intact. reading time 3 minutes ...

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

Bees swarm the queen to protect her and start a new, more sustainable colony capable of producing the next generation of bees.

Ant societies are built on scent. Pheromones guide the insects to food, warn them of predators, and regulate the rhythms of ...

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, ...