New research has found an insect species with markings that are so black that they’re ‘superblack’ or ‘ultrablack’, absorbing ...

Having numbered exactly zero in the U.S. before the 20th century, billions of Argentine ants now occupy large swathes of American land, with the largest supercolony extending over 500 miles from ...

The resin of conifer trees contains antibiotic chemicals and is harvested by the European wood ant to disinfect their nests. A large nest can contain up to 20kg of resin. Ants live in colonies ...

There are only two animals capable of transporting an object so large that it can only be moved by cooperating: humans and ...