Some ants might actually not be ants at all, and instead be other animals pretending to be them. Pictures from a new paper in the journal Biology Letters show ants, other insects and spiders that all ...

A new study from Caltech explores the remarkable way a SoCal beetle infiltrates the colonies of the ant that runs the show in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A large scale study finds that ant species with thinner, cheaper exoskeletons evolved bigger colonies and higher diversification ...

A 113-million-year-old hell ant fossil discovered in northeastern Brazil's Crato Formation represents the oldest known ant specimen in the fossil record. The remarkable preservation reveals ...

WHAT DO ANTS AND ATOMS HAVE IN COMMON? BESIDES BEGINNING WITH THE LETTER A, THEY PUNCH ABOVE THEIR WEIGHT WHEN IT COMES TO POWER? FAMOUSLY, ANTS CAN HAUL TEN TIMES THEIR BODY WEIGHT OR MORE. AND AS ...

Ants can be found in huge numbers in almost all of the world’s regions and habitats. But how did they become the most populous, highly diverse insect species on the planet? Scientists may have an ...

Giant, man-made supersoldiers have made the leap from the realm of science fiction to reality with a little help from an international team of scientists. These chemically induced warriors are quite ...

Ants are tiny powerhouses that can lift 100 times their weight and fend off lions. They have also lived on Earth for millions of years longer than previously thought. That’s according to researchers ...

Researchers found that after multiple hybridization events between two wood ant species distinct hybrid populations evolved independently towards the same direction, suggesting hybridization is ...