With a staggering population of at least 20 quadrillion, ants are by far the most common insects on the planet today. They ...

While humans may think of agriculture as a uniquely human achievement, ants have been farming their own food for millions of years, a new study has revealed. Researchers found that ants began ...

Long before humans planted crops like wheat or rice, ants were already farming. These tiny animals have been cultivating fungi for millions of years, developing a system that rivals our own ...

Ants are complex and fascinating creatures that ... it killed millions of the iconic migrating red crabs by spraying them with formic acid. The island's landscape changed as a result, with ...

Dinosaurs certainly didn’t benefit from the Chicxulub asteroid impact, but that was a wholly different story for the ancestors of today’s ants. In fact, the climatic upheaval that rocked Earth ...

This reaches the peak of sophistication in the leafcutter ants, which cut foliage and return it to feed their fungi, which in turn form specialized growths that are harvested for food. But other ...

Simply placing as few as four live ants into a container of milk provides enough microbes, enzymes and acids to kickstart the fermentation process that creates yogurt. Today, most yogurts are ...

For the last 20 years, I have tried everything to get rid of these pesty ants, with spray and ant traps, and nothing really worked. So, one day I noticed that the ants didn’t go on the other ...

Help us keep bring these critical stories to light. Your support makes all the difference. Ants started farming 66 million years ago in the aftermath of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs ...

Ingo Arndt (Germany) documents the efficient dismemberment of a blue ground beetle by red wood ants. “Full of ant” is how Ingo described himself after lying next to the ants’ nest for just a few ...

A philosopher journeys into the world of comparative thanatology, which explores how animals of all kinds respond to death and dying. By Emily Anthes In the summer of 2018, off the coast of ...

They’ve calculated how many worker ants they will need in 16 years and who will flip their burgers if you don’t have any workers?