Some ants thrive by choosing numbers over strength. Instead of heavily protecting each worker, they invest fewer resources in ...

The researchers think the pattern they observed in ants reflects a more universal trend in the evolution of societal ...

Ants are among the most physically fragile insects on the planet, yet they dominate almost every land habitat and outweigh ...

Would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses? The famous question, though implausible, reflects a ...

Would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses? As silly as it sounds, the question captures a real ...

Aristotle praised the political organization of ant colonies while ancient Chinese Daoists appreciated ants as illustrative symbols showing how ephemeral human ambitions and power are. Throughout ...

A team of researchers from George Washington University and The Rockefeller University studying the morphology of turtle ant heads found that the critters undergo reverse-evolution in which their head ...

The rapid diversification of ants has “led to their role as ecological engineers” that can work in habitats across the world, ...

Two new studies show how climate influences behavior, communication, and genome evolution—driving adaptation in a ...

Here’s a fun (and creepy) fact: The Earth is home to approximately 20 quadrillion ants. To put zeroes on it, that’s around 20,000,000,000,000,000 of the six-legged insects living all around us. How ...

Evolution is usually a forward-moving process, honing every single living thing to perfectly fit its environment. Every generation is formed from this process over the course of millions of years. But ...