Chemical analysis provided a key clue.

One summer day, 8-year-old Hugo Deans spotted a cluster of tiny, BB-sized spheres (galls) near an ant nest in his backyard.

Researchers recreated a nearly forgotten yogurt recipe that once was common across the Balkans and Turkey—using ants. Reporting in iScience on October 3, the team shows that bacteria, acids, and ...

This article was originally featured on the Conversation. When I first started my job as a biologist at the University of South Florida, I drove my Jeep to a grassy field, dug up a mound of fire ants ...

At the right concentration, the carbon-rich soil booster makes ants forage 2x as fast, build threefold more complex nests, ...

Call them nature’s own luxury high-rise condo rentals. Squamellaria plants, from the same family as coffee and quinine, are fat aerial tubers perched high in tropical trees. In Fiji, one of the ...

Octopuses 'Kraken' octopus that lived at the time of the dinosaurs was a 62-foot-long apex predator of the ocean Plants Some fungi can influence the weather ‪—‬ and now we know how they do it Space ...

Leaf-cutter ants of the species Acromyrmex echinatior are building a continuous mineral shield on their exoskeletons by pulling carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and converting it into high-magnesium ...

In this photo, the parasitic ant queen Lasius orientalis (left) infiltrates the nest of Lasius flavus and apporaches their queen (right). The parasite will then spray the host queen and trick the ...

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