One kind of tiny ant can serve as a monumental example for how to keep members of a community safe from pathogens. A new ...

Recent observations have unveiled a fascinating phenomenon: ants, much like humans, adapt their behavior to maintain distance ...

Stories of camel spiders and their aggressive nature have been told for generations. Tales of these critters running at high ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, we had to completely reorganize our spaces to avoid close contact. Transparent barriers ...

The emergent complexity of ant societies is one of the most fascinating phenomena in the natural world: how do these tiny creatures form such intricate social networks? These networks are so nuanced ...

Like a brain, an ant colony operates without central control. Each is a set of interacting individuals, either neurons or ants, using simple chemical interactions that in the aggregate generate their ...

An ant colony that survived for years in post-soviet nuclear weapon bunker by turning to cannibalism, has been assisted to freedom. Researchers have successfully evacuated a wood ant colony, of the ...

An ant colony in Poland has been the focus of scientists for several years now. More accurately, the scientists are studying two colonies, one "normal" colony of wood ants who live in a dirt mound on ...

A supercolony of ants has been discovered stretching thousands of miles from the Italian Riviera along the coastline to northwest Spain. It's the largest cooperative unit ever recorded, according to ...

Ants have an incredible capacity to work together for the good of the collective, but a freshly discovered species shows just how far they are willing to go. Colobopsis explodens has been observed in ...