���Almost Impossible to Believe���: Interspecies Cloning Seen in Ants

Now this is a unique story! Scientists have observed, for the first time ever, queen Iberian harvester ants cloning another species. These queen ants ���mate with males of another species [in the same genus] and then clone them,��� making this ant ���the only known organism that propagates two species by itself.���

Yes, that���s as complicated as it sounds. The researcher who led the team that made this discovery says this ant is ���in a sense, the most complex, colonial life form we know of so ...