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

Iberian harvester ants are examples of a new mode of reproduction called xenoparous, with xeno- meaning “foreign, strange or ...

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 ...

When the researchers put the structor males created by the ant queen into a regular structor colony, they were killed. The ...

The red imported fire ant has made its home in the southern areas of the United States. The reason isn't difficult to guess: ...