Genetic diversity is essential to the survival of a species. It’s easy enough to maintain if a species reproduces sexually; an egg and a sperm combine genetic material from two creatures into one, ...

MONTPELLIER, France — 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 ...

The cricket species can reproduce without a mate and is believed to produce only females, researchers said. Photo by Aleksandrs Balodis A unique species of cricket found only in northern Europe tricks ...

In a discovery that sounds almost like science fiction, scientists have found that queen ants of the Iberian harvester species (Messor ibericus) can produce offspring not just of their own kind but ...