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

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

This process—the team dubs it “xenoparous,” meaning that an organism gives birth to another species as part of its life cycle ...

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

Iberian harvester ant queens produce offspring of their own species and of the builder harvester ant, seemingly by cloning ...

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

Ants, though small, create significant disturbances in various environments. Twelve common species, including carpenter, pavement, and fire ants, disr ...

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

Seventy-nine percent of endemic species are showing declines, underscoring how fragile island biodiversity is in the face of ecosystem changes. Insects play essential roles in ecosystems, from ...

Data now show that, in the absence of nearby M. structor colonies, M. ibericus queens can clone male M. structor ants by ...

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

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