A single queen in the tropics; large colonies in deserts; workers with uniform morphology in temperate regions; ant social ...

A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has shown in a new study that ants returning from habitats ...

Air pollution may be turning ants against their own families, according to new research which suggests that such pollution ...

Native ants in the forests around the recent Eaton fire had survived the heat, flames and smoke, an evolutionary survival ...

A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has shown in a new study that ants returning from habitats affected by air pollution are attacked when they re-enter the colony. The ...

A few months ago, I awoke to find a streak spanning the length of my kitchen wall that looked like it had been drawn there ...

Ants are many things. They're hard workers and intensely social. They're quite strong for their size. And now they may also be a source of architectural inspiration too — for designing spaces that ...

Ant colonies behave as 'superorganisms' rather than collections of individuals, a study from the University of Bristol has demonstrated. The study seeks to explain the behaviour of ant colonies as ...

Biologist E.O. Wilson once wrote that "ants are the most warlike of all animals," noting that clashes between ant colonies dwarfed the human battles at Waterloo and Gettysburg. But sometimes ant ...