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

Do you know how to recognize one of the most common types of ants in the U.S.? Field ants could be hiding under your nose, ...

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

The Messor ibericus is, as its name suggests, native to the Iberian Peninsula. But its colonies are found across the entire ...

The researchers even coined a word for it, xenoparity, meaning “foreign birth”. It pushes the boundaries of what we mean by ...

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

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

The Argentine Ant can build nests like no other. Learn about ant colonies, how they work, and the biggest one on Earth.

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

Somehow, queen ants can mate with males of another species and clone them, producing eggs from another species entirely.