'It was hell. I've never seen anything like it. That night was insanity. It was just a nightmare.' Paul Rosolie is telling MailOnline Travel about the night in the Peruvian Amazon that leaf-cutter ...

A viral Instagram video showed a Michigan woman who claimed she ordered 50 live ants on Amazon to build an ant farm for her kids. A woman from Michigan is going viral after sharing a strange video of ...

image: This new species of blind, subterranean, predatory ant, Martialis heureka, was discovered in the Amazon by Christian Rabeling at the University of Texas at Austin. It belongs to the first new ...

As part of its epic 10-part journey across the American supercontinent, The Americas takes viewers into the heart of the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest and a hotbed of biodiversity. It covers ...

We’ve all heard of bookworms, but book ants? A Brazilian writer was taken aback after a colony of ants allegedly colonized her Kindle — and started buying books off of it. “My virtual library had ...

A man camping in the Amazon rainforest shared the moment he was woken up by leaf cutter ants ripping apart his tent. Conservationist Paul Rosolie was resting in the world's largest rainforest when the ...

Biologists already knew that metalmark larvae produce a nutritious goo and feed it to ants in exchange for their protection from predators. After the larvae made the transition to adults, however, ...

No one knows for certain how many insect species reside in the Amazon. One oft-quoted estimate is 30 million, but the actual number could be significantly lower or higher than this. Either way, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. What a difference a year makes in the Brazilian Amazon. At the start of 2023, I wrote ...

East of the northern Ucayali River in Peru is a geologically subsiding basin crossed by winding rivers and extensive wetlands. Much of this topographically flat region is flooded for several months ...

Instead of the usual scenes of people marching along streets with placards, a recent protest against the destruction of the Amazon rainforest featured half a million ants carrying messages for German ...