At the Kuala Belalong Field Studies Center in Brunei, there is a nest of very special ants. They explode. Scientists recently published an in-depth description of the newly named species, called ...

Outside the kitchen door at the Kuala Belalong Field Studies Center in Brunei, on a number of trees near the balcony, there is a nest of very special ants. They explode. This colony was studied in ...

Colobopsis explodens, employs a unique defense mechanism: self-destruction. When threatened, these ants rupture their own bodies, releasing a sticky, toxic substance to immobilize predators and ...