Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A close-up of an ant crawling on a glass window with a blurred high-rise city building in the background.© A-Z Animals Most ants ...

"Humans have relied on antibiotics for less than a century, yet many pathogens have already evolved resistance, giving rise to 'superbugs.' Ants, by contrast, have been using antibiotics for tens of ...

Ants coordinate highly complex foraging and traffic systems without any leaders, relying entirely on local interactions and chemical cues. Pheromone trails encode information about distance, food ...

If you saw this circular raft floating down a river you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a discarded deep-dish ...

Tanya Latty co-founded and volunteers for conservation organisation Invertebrates Australia, is former president of the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour and is on the education ...

Most ants are less than an inch long, making them very small insects. While their petite stature may seem like a problem for survival, it actually has many practical benefits. For one, they can ...

Ants have evolved an acute sense of smell, which requires each sensory neuron to choose one scent receptor out of hundreds. In a new study published in Nature, researchers at New York University have ...