A 113-million-year-old hell ant fossil discovered in northeastern Brazil's Crato Formation represents the oldest known ant specimen in the fossil record. The remarkable preservation reveals ...

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

Up to 20 million driver ants can swarm out of one nest and attack any living thing in the area. Read how they do it!

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds a report publishing in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on April 24.

Giant, man-made supersoldiers have made the leap from the realm of science fiction to reality with a little help from an international team of scientists. These chemically induced warriors are quite ...

Ants are tiny powerhouses that can lift 100 times their weight and fend off lions. They have also lived on Earth for millions of years longer than previously thought. That’s according to researchers ...

In sessile organisms such as plants and benthic invertebrates, founding propagules typically suffer extremely high rates of mortality due to both extrinsic and intrinsic factors. Many social insect ...

A 113-million-year-old fossilized ant is the oldest ever discovered. The “remarkably well-preserved" hell ant was found in limestone in Brazil. Scientists say it is a member of Haidomyrmecinae - an ...

The trade-off between quality and quantity is a fundamental economic dilemma. Now, a team of British, American, and Japanese researchers describes how it applies to biology, as well. They have ...

I thought of a different and more recent parallel - the move from hunting-gathering to farming, on the order of ten thousand years ago. I don't know if it is a hundred percent authenticated, but it ...

Two new studies show how climate influences behavior, communication, and genome evolution – driving adaptation in a long-running conflict The battle between ant hosts and their social parasites is ...