Apparently, the Queen ate a lot of humans. So the offspring she bore became more human-like as a result.
[ now this is all nat geo level of knowledge he learned from watching the news, but still. bizarre stuff, which he found fascinating in the way one might find something crazy happening on the news fascinating in a distant "i'm not involved" way. ]
Chimera ants inherit traits depending on the prey consumed by the Queen, giving a lot of them mixtures of human and animal traits, along with ant ones. Humanoid big cats with ant limbs, that kind of thing. Not too far off from rats with tentacles.
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So the offspring she bore became more human-like as a result.
[ now this is all nat geo level of knowledge he learned from watching the news, but still. bizarre stuff, which he found fascinating in the way one might find something crazy happening on the news fascinating in a distant "i'm not involved" way. ]
Chimera ants inherit traits depending on the prey consumed by the Queen, giving a lot of them mixtures of human and animal traits, along with ant ones. Humanoid big cats with ant limbs, that kind of thing.
Not too far off from rats with tentacles.