A new study from Caltech explores the remarkable way a SoCal beetle infiltrates the colonies of the ant that runs the show in ...

S. lativentris beetles evade detection — and attack — by grooming the ants to harvest chemicals called cuticular hydrocarbons ...

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 ...

Rove beetles have evolved a neat trick to survive. They cloak themselves in ant pheromones, allowing them to enter and remain ...

A recent study from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) reveals that, despite their outsized ecological impact ...

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 ...

WHAT DO ANTS AND ATOMS HAVE IN COMMON? BESIDES BEGINNING WITH THE LETTER A, THEY PUNCH ABOVE THEIR WEIGHT WHEN IT COMES TO POWER? FAMOUSLY, ANTS CAN HAUL TEN TIMES THEIR BODY WEIGHT OR MORE. AND AS ...

Ants can be found in huge numbers in almost all of the world’s regions and habitats. But how did they become the most populous, highly diverse insect species on the planet? Scientists may have an ...

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 ...