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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Ants took up farming some 50 million years ago, according to U.S. researchers who traced the ancestry of farmer ants. An analysis of the DNA of farmer ants traced them back to an original ancestor — a ...

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.

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 ...

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