MONTPELLIER, France — 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 ...

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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: Reading ...

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 ...

This week, a new lineage of tropical mammoth has been discovered in Mexico, the latest in the saga of whether the small-brained Homo naledi may have buried its dead, and violent storms led to the ...