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

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

Some ants thrive by choosing numbers over strength. Instead of heavily protecting each worker, they invest fewer resources in ...

Ants are among the most physically fragile insects on the planet, yet they dominate almost every land habitat and outweigh ...

Two new studies show how climate influences behavior, communication, and genome evolution—driving adaptation in a ...

A team of researchers from George Washington University and The Rockefeller University studying the morphology of turtle ant heads found that the critters undergo reverse-evolution in which their head ...

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 ...

Mammals keep evolving into anteaters, eating only ants and termites, at least 12 times since the age the dinosaurs.

You can't turn on an NBA post-game show or national sports podcast without hearing someone well-regarded saying very nice things about the Timberwolves. More often than not, the first recipient of ...

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 ...

Evolution is usually a forward-moving process, honing every single living thing to perfectly fit its environment. Every generation is formed from this process over the course of millions of years. But ...