Did you know that some ants are farmers while others drink the blood of their victims like Dracula? And that ants have been ...

Ants are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities—including their legendary communication skills that allow their colonies to function as superorganisms. Invasive ant species are ...

There are over one hundred trillion ants on earth, approximately 14,000 ants for every human. If you weighed every human and all the ants, the scales would balance. The resin of conifer trees ...

How does that song go? The ants go marching two by two? Check again: It's more like 20,000. These tiny, mighty insects can do ...

Edward O. Wilson / Liveright / 240 pages Tales from the Ant World, by famed naturalist E. O. Wilson, is full of interesting, absorbable facts about ants (at the time of writing 15,438 species had been ...

Ant guests will exploit the food resources in ... but she is particularly fascinated by all things aquatic, paleontology, nanotechnology, and exploring how science influences daily life.

That’s what most of the ants do. But a few will periodically detach from the group and get a better view of the walls of the puzzle. Then, since they have more knowledge, they nudge things in ...

Adult female Brazilian velvet ant (Traumatomutilla bifurca) shows off her superblack patches. ... [+] (Credit: copyright: Nicole Desnoyers. Image appears here with kind permission.) An ...

You would hold up your part and move with the group. That’s what most of the ants do. But a few will periodically detach from ...

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 ...

That’s what most of the ants do. But a few will periodically detach from the group and get a better view of the walls of the puzzle. Then, since they have more knowledge, they nudge things in ...