Recent observations have unveiled a fascinating phenomenon: ants, much like humans, adapt their behavior to maintain distance ...

One kind of tiny ant can serve as a monumental example for how to keep members of a community safe from pathogens. A new ...

To ants, survival of the fittest is a sham. A new study has found that instead of competing for resources, working together has evolutionary advantages. A team of scientists led by Daniel Kronauer, an ...

Scientists have successfully replicated the behavior of a colony of ants on the move with the use of miniature robots. Scientists have successfully replicated the behaviour of a colony of ants on the ...

Move over, ant farms — ant hospitals are where the real action is. Scientists studying the behavior of African Matabele ants in Ivory Coast have found that the insects act like paramedics in a crisis, ...

Single Gene Shapes the Toil of Ants' Fighter and Forager Castes: Researchers studying the social behavior of ants have found that a single gene underlies both the aggressive behavior of the ant colony ...

Stories of camel spiders and their aggressive nature have been told for generations. Tales of these critters running at high ...

Forget swarms of nanobots taking over the world—if something is going to band together to rise against humans, my money is on ants. Look at this video of them forming a chain to move something way ...

Let’s say you’re out hunting with some friends, and all of the sudden you are all gruesomely attacked. One of your buddies loses a leg or an arm. As you’re running for dear life, would you pick up ...

Why would an ant walk in an endless circle until it dies of starvation and exhaustion? Known as an ant death spiral, or circular milling, this deadly phenomenon can cause hundreds of ants to follow ...

Though many ants spend their lives peacefully tending fungus farms and herds of aphids, others have it much rougher. Such is the case with the ant species Megaponera analis, native to many parts of ...