A queen ant in southern Europe has become the first known animal to consistently produce offspring that are members of a different species.

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

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

Around 4,000 plant species from different parts of the world secrete nectar outside their flowers, such as on their stems or leaves, through secretory glands known as extrafloral nectaries. Unlike ...

New research finds that 79 percent of Fiji's endemic ant species—those that are native to and only found on the archipelago—are in decline ...