Discover the Dinoponera, Earth's largest ant, reaching up to 4 cm! These South American giants boast a unique queenless ...

The unusual life cycle of ants reflects their social behavior, with some individuals foregoing reproduction to tend to the ...

Almost wherever you go on Earth, you will find ants! The only places that do not have any are Antarctica, Greenland, Iceland, and some island nations. Not only are they widespread, but there are also ...

A supercolony of ants has been discovered stretching thousands of miles from the Italian Riviera along the coastline to northwest Spain. It's the largest cooperative unit ever recorded, according to ...

While ant queen violence is well-known, scientists recently documented the first evidence of parasite-induced matricide ...

Earth's most successful creatures, ants, form vast, organized societies. The Argentine ant, however, has created an ...

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide.

Like a brain, an ant colony operates without central control. Each is a set of interacting individuals, either neurons or ants, using simple chemical interactions that in the aggregate generate their ...

Researchers have taken detailed scans of worker ants to examine the hypothesis that the loss of flight is directly connected to the evolution of strength. Ants are one of the most successful groups of ...