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@triggerloop.bsky.social

Look at this crazy thing! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comOne mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - NatureIn a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

3/9/25, 7:05 pm64 reposts152 likes

Vikram Paralkar

@paralkarlab.bsky.social

🤯🤯🤯

@jasonsynaptic.bsky.social

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@pjie2.bsky.social

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Justin Blumenstiel

@bdelloid.bsky.social

"Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring". P-shaw! Speak for yourself. You know what "assuming" does, right?

@triggerloop.bsky.social

Apparently these ants already know to do crazy stuff so this is just one more level of crazy. It is BANANAS

@pjie2.bsky.social

Whoever decided on that *and the associated reference* as the opening sentence should feel justifiably smug for the rest of their life.

@triggerloop.bsky.social

It’s a boss move!

@pjie2.bsky.social

Although were I the reviewer I would have pointed to Genesis 1:24 as a prior reference.

The worst person you know

@postingposter.bsky.social

I don't, yet you're confidently asserting that I do.