This week’s science news is stuffed with a menagerie of weird and wonderful animal discoveries. Topping the list are Iberian harvester ants (Messor ibericus), which mate with the male ants of a distantly related species (Messor structor) to procreate. That’s odd enough on its own, but now scientists have discovered that the harvester ants don’t even need nearby M. structor …
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