Celebrate Thanksgiving with some of the animal kingdom’s greatest cooks, including marshmallow-roasting apes and salt-sprinkling monkeys Jack Tamisiea In the tropical forests of Central and South ...

A new study shows how ants grow huge colonies by choosing numbers over strength and relying on teamwork instead of tough ...

Research on deeply connected insect species is illuminating how interspecies relationships might evolve in response to climate change Emily Leclerc Through research on living and preserved ...

The Connecticut State Museum of Natural History, part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UConn, presents “Fungus-Growing Ants and the Eco-Evolution of Antibiotics,” a lecture by Dr.

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists in Brazil have discovered the world’s oldest known ant fossil of a 113-million-year-old specimen of a fearsome predator known as a "hell ant." Unearthed from ...

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

Research shows that some ants have learned how to treat their wounds, revealing one of the clearest examples of medical ...

When Milton Levine returned from World War II, he had some common, but very pressing, problems. He didn’t have much money. Which was doubly urgent because he brought a lovely young war bride from ...