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 different ant species. A team ...

In a stunning discovery, European ant queens display extraordinary reproductive strategy. Messor ibericus queens can produce males belonging to two species. This remarkable finding was recently ...

The biological sex of an ant is determined by whether an individual ant is haploid or diploid. In other words, it depends on whether they have one set or two sets of chromosomes in the nuclei of their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One Iberian harvester ant queen gave birth to two different species: an Iberian harvester male (left) and a Messor structor male. ...