The object had to be in just the right orientation to pass through the first opening and then rotate to pass through the second. In videos that recently went viral, the ants – called longhorn crazy ...

When scientists constructed a puzzle-solving task and pitted teams of people against teams of ants, the insects sometimes proved to be the smarter species. That’s not to denigrate human ...

Illustration: Yusha In videos that recently went viral, the ants — called longhorn crazy ants (Paratrechina longicornis) — danced through the exercise with such grace that even ant experts were amazed ...

When an insect steps on one of the trap’s many holes, hundreds of ants inside use the openings to seize it with their jaws. Another species, the yellow crazy ant (Anoplolepis gracilipes), is ...

Humans tackled the task either alone or in groups of up to 26, while the ants—Paratrechina longicornis, also known as “crazy ants” for their erratic movements—worked in groups ranging from ...

In videos that recently went viral, the ants — called longhorn crazy ants (Paratrechina longicornis) — danced through the exercise with such grace that even ant experts were amazed.