offspring vs consequence

offspring and consequence both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
offspring	Yes	No	No	No
consequence	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, consequence is a hypernym of offspring; that is, consequence is a word with a broader meaning than offspring:

offspring: something that comes into existence as a result
consequence: a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

Other hypernyms of offspring include effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot.

offspring (noun)	consequence (noun)
any immature animal	having important effects or influence
something that comes into existence as a result	the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual
the immediate descendants of a person	a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon