By repurposing ancient feeding signals, clonal raider ants coordinate brood care and foraging, offering new insights into the ...

Long before the dawn of modern parenting, animals laid eggs and moved on, leaving their progeny to fend for themselves. Now, ...

Researchers have discovered an insect that lived nearly 100 million years ago encased in amber. The so-called "Hell Ant" had vertical jaws that it used to pin its prey against its horn-covered head.

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 ...

An ant colony runs on a strict division of labor that shifts as each worker ages. Young ants typically stay inside the nest ...

SÃO PAOLO, Brazil — In the ancient landscapes of what is now northeastern Brazil, 113 million years ago, an unusual ant with bizarre upward-pointing jaws died and became entombed in limestone. This ...

All of the nearly 16,000 species of modern ants share a common extinct ancestor, and a new analysis suggests modern ants once shared the planet with their ancient ant relatives — and that their ...

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Ants are considerably older than previously believed, having originated 140 to 168 million years ago, according to new research on the cover of this week's issue of the journal Science. But these ...

Seen in the image below, scientists have discovered an unusual specimen of fungus that made a carpenter ant its home; this discovery is the oldest known ant fungal parasite, which is also a new genus ...

In findings published Aug. 6 in the journal Current Biology, researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Rennes in France have unveiled a ...

There are 20 quadrillion ants on Earth —that’s 2.5 million ants for every human. Known ant species (members of the family ...