The ant scurries along on six nimble legs. It catches up to its peers, a line of antennaed bugs roaming the winding surface ...

Insects like ants heal their fellow species, and they even perform surgeries. Biologist Erik Frank is researching their ...

Footage gives a rare insight into the behaviour of the giant pangolin, the largest ... lap up ants and termites with their long sticky tongues There are four species in Africa -the African white ...

Africa, and America. Though not closely related, they all evolved the "tools" necessary to subsist on an ant diet: a long, sticky tongue, few teeth, a rugged stomach, and large salivary glands.

However, some species have diets that are more unusual. Army ants, with their large mandibles and painful stings, may prey on reptiles, birds, or even small mammals. Ant colonies are so tightly ...