Learn how ants traded individual protection for collective power — and what it reveals about how complex societies evolve.

Would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses? As silly as it sounds, the question captures a real dilemma: do you go for a few high-quality options, or many lower-quality ones? A ...

Would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses?The famous question, though implausible, reflects a ubiquitous tradeoff between ...

Here’s a fun (and creepy) fact: The Earth is home to approximately 20 quadrillion ants. To put zeroes on it, that’s around 20,000,000,000,000,000 of the six-legged insects living all around us. How ...

The rapid diversification of ants has “led to their role as ecological engineers” that can work in habitats across the world, ...

The researchers think the pattern they observed in ants reflects a more universal trend in the evolution of societal ...

Tiny pharaoh ants invade buildings and hospitals, moving along walls and pipes, defying all conventional control methods.

US military conducts strike on three suspected narco-terrorist boats in international waters Judge refuses to grant Sarah ...

Kspeka joins host Robin Young to talk about ants, including the spiny queen, who invades colonies of carpenter ants using a ...

The Dinoponera gigantea (4 cm) is the largest living ant species, found in the Amazon. The all-time largest was the extinct ...

Animal mothers exhibit remarkable resilience and ingenuity when raising large litters. Species like the tailless tenrec and ...