Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A large scale study finds that ant species with thinner, cheaper exoskeletons evolved bigger colonies and higher diversification ...

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

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 ...

For ants, the ability to instantly distinguish nestmates from outsiders who might hijack the colony is crucial. Now, a new ...

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 ...

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds a new report. The hell ant, which was preserved in limestone, is a member ...

Across ant evolution, colonies have repeatedly split into two distinct social worlds: those ruled by a single queen and those shared among many. This difference is now linked to a supergene 1 — a ...

The ant recognition system is flexible, allowing ants to learn and tolerate outsiders while still recognizing their own kind.

The classic thought experiment about a horse-sized duck and a hundred duck-sized horses is more than a joke. It captures a deep tradeoff between quantity and quality that shows up in nature, including ...