The rainforests of northern Australia are home to extraordinary ant colonies. Instead of dwelling in underground burrows, ...

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 ...

Ant societies rely on precise recognition systems to maintain cooperation, but new research reveals that these systems are ...

A colony of rock ants, Temnothorax albipennis, inside the artificial colony, a cutout in a piece of gray cardboard sandwiched between two glass slides. The number written on the upper slide is the ...

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide. The scientist E.O. Wilson once wrote that ants are the most warlike of all ...

Army ants form some of the largest insect societies on the planet. They are quite famous in popular culture, most notably from a terrifying scene in Indiana Jones. But they are also ecologically ...

Humans are not the only animals to have a dedicated health care system. Some super-organized ant species not only recognize that their comrade is injured but actually carry them back to the ant nest ...

Biologist E.O. Wilson once wrote that "ants are the most warlike of all animals," noting that clashes between ant colonies dwarfed the human battles at Waterloo and Gettysburg. But sometimes ant ...

Do you ever feel as if you could do your bosses' jobs better than they can? Or do you ever think about marching into a whole new career? If so, new research from the University of Arizona suggests ...