Researchers have discovered the secret to the powerful cutting ability of ants: they have teeth on the outside of their mouths, and these so-called mandibular teeth are made of a material that can ...

You’ve probably never seen a Dracula ant, as these elusive insects spend their days tunneling through the leaf litter and soil of tropical forests in Africa, Australia, and Southeast Asia, rarely ...

Crawling along the underbrush of the tropical savannas of Brazil, there’s a powerful and mysterious insect known as the velvet ant. Actually a kind of wasp, wingless females of this species ...

There are 20 quadrillion ants on Earth —that’s 2.5 million ants for every human. Known ant species (members of the family ...

When the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia last week presented its Leidy Medal to Dr. William Morton Wheeler, internationally famed zoologist, longtime Dean of the Bussey Institution for ...

Imagine trying to build a house without a blueprint, find a shortcut through an unfamiliar city without a map, or govern a ...

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Some people change careers, and it seems that the Harpegnathos saltator ant can do the same; worker ants can switch to queen-like figures that are known as gamergates. Worker ants are not able to ...

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Biological invasions occur when organisms such as animals and plants are introduced by people to regions of the world where they do not naturally occur. In these new locations, these organisms are ...

Researchers in Japan discovered that ants placed in isolation die younger due to an accumulation of reactive oxygen, a ...