The classic thought experiment about a horse-sized duck and a hundred duck-sized horses is more than a joke. It captures a ...

An ant species can amputate each other's legs and can also determine whether it is needed depending on the location of the wound, a new study finds. Ants are territorial and can get into rough ...

There’s a new ant–agonist on the pesticide market. According to a review published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, trees protected by weaver ants have less pests, less plant damage, and show an ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The big-headed ant (Pheidole megacephala) is considered one of the world's worst invasive ant species. As the name implies, its colonies include soldier ants with disproportionately ...

New study that uses 3D visualization and deep learning shows that "zombie ant fungus" controls the insect's muscles, not the brain. Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – A fungus that infects the brains of ants, effectively turning them into zombies, is actually vulnerable to a parasite itself, according to new research. The zombie-ant fungus, ...

Researchers from the University of Hong Kong and the University of Würzburg in Germany found that there are more ants than there are birds and mammals combined on Earth. In a recent study published in ...

A tiny invasive ant muscled into a Kenyan savannah and sparked such a dramatic transformation in the landscape that even the local lions changed the way they hunt, according to research published ...

A study at Webster University has revealed that Monsanto's weed killer Roundup can significantly change ant behavior. Researchers began two years ago to study how ants are affected by man-made ...

It's the weather that sends ants streaming into homes, and using pesticides, sprays and baits to keep the critters out is hopeless, a new Stanford University study concludes. The 18-month study ...