Mastodawn

Whoa. New science. These ant queens produce babies of two different species.

https://www.404media.co/the-biological-rulebook-was-just-rewritten-by-ants/?ref=the-abstract-newsletter

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09425-w

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The Biological Rulebook Was Just Rewritten—by Ants

Iberian harvester ant queens clone males of a different species in a never-before-seen case of reproduction and domestication.

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