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 ...

Learn more about a newly observed insect behavior in which smaller ants clean larger ants.

Ants are known for many things. They fight, bite and sometimes compete for every crumb. We can now possibly add cleaning ...

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds a report publishing in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on April 24.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A new paper from Caltech reveals how a type of rove beetle turns off its own pheromones — and steals them from ...

Across ant evolution, colonies have repeatedly split into two distinct social worlds: those ruled by a single queen and those shared among many. This difference is now linked to a supergene 1 — a ...

The classic thought experiment about a horse-sized duck and a hundred duck-sized horses is more than a joke. It captures a deep tradeoff between quantity and quality that shows up in nature, including ...

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds a new report. The hell ant, which was preserved in limestone, is a member ...

The showrunner of the Angeles National Forest isn’t a 500-pound black bear or a stealthy mountain lion. It’s a small ant. The velvety tree ant forms a millions-strong “social insect carpet that spans ...