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This Animal Mother Is the Only on Record to Bear Offspring That Aren't the Same Species
Meet the Messor ibericus harvester ant, the only animal on record that clones another animal to carry out its lifecycle, ...
The first explorers in the 17th and 18th centuries, like Abel Tasman and James Cook, charted some of the Fijian islands but ...
Researchers have uncovered an unusual survival strategy in Iberian harvester ants that turns basic biology on its head: The ...
Iberian harvester ant queens produce offspring of their own species and of the builder harvester ant, seemingly by cloning ...
The researchers even coined a word for it, xenoparity, meaning “foreign birth”. It pushes the boundaries of what we mean by ...
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Officials establish biosecurity zones after alarming discovery: 'We've had a concern for a while'
"There has been a significant escalation." Officials establish biosecurity zones after alarming discovery: 'We've had a ...
When an animal parent has a child, both will belong to the same species. Humans beget humans, combfish beget combfish, and ...
Bizarrely, Iberian harvester ant queens lay eggs that turn into male builder harvester ants, and some of her offspring are ...
FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ants are the number one nuisance pest in America,* regularly invading homes and creating big problems. Summer is peak season for ants, so the National Pest Management ...
Scientists discover that a queen ants of the Messor genus produce males from another species to breed hybrid workers in ...
Just when we thought we've seen it all, up pops some bizarre but adorable-looking animal that we never even knew existed.
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