Here’s a fun (and creepy) fact: The Earth is home to approximately 20 quadrillion ants. To put zeroes on it, that’s around 20,000,000,000,000,000 of the six-legged insects living all around us. How ...

Would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses? The famous question, though implausible, reflects a ...

The rapid diversification of ants has “led to their role as ecological engineers” that can work in habitats across the world, ...

The researchers think the pattern they observed in ants reflects a more universal trend in the evolution of societal ...

It grows quickly and depends on adult worker ants to feed it. These workers decide how much and what kind of food the larva ...

Research shows that some ants have learned how to treat their wounds, revealing one of the clearest examples of medical ...

Analysis of 309 strains suggests that the genus Escovopsis originated about 56.9 million years ago, but did not begin ...

Scientists found that a fungus called Escovopsis living in ant nests has a long and surprising history. New research shows a ...

A genus of fungi previously considered a parasite of fungi associated with ants may actually have much more complex ...

A genus of fungi previously considered a parasite of fungi associated with ants may actually have much more complex ecological functions. According to ...

One supercolony in Europe spans 6000 km of the coasts of Portugal, Spain, France and Italy and contains millions of ...

Beneath a tree where a sloth sleeps, juvenile caimans lurk in the long grasses. The air is thick with the sound of an astonishing frog chorus. As night falls, and I look at the moon and stars, I ...