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

A Weizmann Institute of Science team has found that ants have better group smarts than people when maneuvering a large load through a maze. Prof. Ofer Feinerman, who led the research team, said the ...

Ants can be found in nearly every location on Earth, with rough estimates suggesting there are over ten quadrillion individuals — that is one followed by 16 zeroes, or about 1 million ants per person.

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Researchers discovered that males of the yellow crazy ant have maternal and paternal genomes in different cells of their body and are thus chimeras. The yellow crazy ant, or Anoplolepis gracilipes, ...

When the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia last week presented its Leidy Medal to Dr. William Morton Wheeler, internationally famed zoologist, longtime Dean of the Bussey Institution for ...

The Bible tells us that we can learn a lot from ants, but have you ever considered that we can also learn a lot about ants? The good news is that you’ve come to the right place because we’re about to ...