@cleoabram: These ants mastered cloning. Scientists were shocked to find this out. At some point, the Iberian Harvester ant species lost the ability to make its own sterile worker ants. To solve that problem, they started mating with another species, Messer structor, to create hybrid workers. This made them reliant on another species for survival, which isn’t ideal. So this is what they did... For more optimistic science and technology, follow along! #Science #ants #cloning #biology

TheOrcas :

Chimera ant arc incoming

Multiverse1066 :

So now China and Ants are ahead of us?

Robinson🥀 :

I think they're just stealing eggs from the😐

Never Seen It Podcast :

Secretly cloning? Who were they keeping it a secret from? 😂

Gallowglass :

An even bigger question is how does the “colony mind” figure this out and execute this? We assume the colony mind is simple? The collective intelligence of the colony emerges from the simple interactions of individual ants, allowing them to find the shortest path to a food source or collectively move to a new location. So there must be a collective mind, a collective consciousness that they are tapping into.

ash bad🧚🏻‍♀️ :

e :

trial and error maybe? Ants aren't actually scientists ya know? lol A lot of trial and error, evolution at work, basically.

Alan Jay :

How is that "cloning?"

Lil Bitty :

Hybrid maybe cloning no!

WisdomOfGod :

well an Ant..giving birth to another Ant isn’t really that crazy it’s within the species..

Tony :

Ants have been ahead of humans since 67BC

Madiee :

Are they full clones or do they share DNA with the harvesters ants

Entomolog :

Entomology is awesome :)

️Space Dust :

science is absolutely wild

House of Zod :

beg pardon... make their own workers and what?

Bab'Dlamini 🇿🇦 :

What if we’re just giant ants ? 👀 🐜 We work for ‘Queens’ - ‘C.E.Os, Presidents, Kings & Queens, we both have armies, live in large numbers & build ridiculously large structures 🦦

skuby lang :

chimera ant arc incoming

💗🌸𝒱𝒾𝓀𝒾🌸💗 :

Whattt

Platitude_Shelf :

I bet an ant was on a bird or butterfly or a squirrel that was snatched.

chopkin880 :

That we think we know anything about this universe is hilarious

Johnny_lawl :

What.

Jinx :

It wasn’t a secret.

Tiffany 💕 :

This whole time I can’t figure out why we even have ants and they’re probably the most advanced creature we have and we don’t even know it ❤

Meaningful Moments Lab :

ohh thank god, finally someone is talking about it.

JASON T :

allegedly