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Say What? Ant Queen Produces Offspring of Two Different Species + The Deadly Second Strike of Black Mamba Venom

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Ant Queen Breaks the Rules of Biology by Producing Male Offspring That Are a Different Species Black Mamba Venom Has a Deadly Hidden Second Strike Contact the Show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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an Aunt Queen breaks all the rules of biology by producing male offspring that are of two

0:45.1

different species. Plus, black mamba venom has a deadly hidden second strike. That plus a look

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This story comes to us from ZMEE science and author Mahi Andre.

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Biologists have long assumed a simple rule. A female produces offspring of her own species.

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It basically goes without saying. And yet, Messer Ibericus has different ideas.

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Its queens lay two kinds of sons, one that looks like their own species, and another that

1:18.6

is genetically and physically part of a different species, Messer Structor.

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This phenomenon is so striking that researchers have coined a new term for it, xenoperity,

1:29.2

meaning to give birth to the foreign.

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