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Even the earliest ants may have been social butterflies. Ants fossilized in 100-million-year-old amber have sensory equipment that suggests they had complex social lives similar to their modern-day ...

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

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Analysis of 309 strains suggests that the genus Escovopsis originated about 56.9 million years ago, but did not begin ...

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Tawny crazy ant, Nylanderia fulva. Credit: Alex Wild/University of Texas at Austin The Tawny crazy ant (sometimes called the Rasberry crazy ant) is an invasive species originally found in South ...