They can lay eggs that hatch into an entirely different species. This discovery, described in a new paper published September ...

The researchers even coined a word for it, xenoparity, meaning “foreign birth”. It pushes the boundaries of what we mean by “species”. And this is the first known case in the animal kingdom of this ...

Researchers have made an unusual observation that seems to be at odds with biology: an ant, known as the Iberian harvester ant can produce offspring of two completely different species. Many ants need ...

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This month, there’s one story on everybody’s minds. I’m speaking, of course, about the Iberian harvester ant queens who can ...

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A team uncovered this bizarre reproductive trait while trying to solve the mystery of a missing ant species. Preliminary data ...

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

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species. These queen Iberian harvester ants (Messor ibericus) are ...