An 8-year-old’s casual backyard observation has transformed our understanding of an intricate relationship between ants, ...

The ant scurries along on six nimble legs. It catches up to its peers, a line of antennaed bugs roaming the winding surface ...

The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants help the endangered species transcend its small stature in the natural world.

Worker ants grow specialized hypertrophied neck-muscles during development that allow them to lift and carry objects many times their own weight. Queens, which are otherwise genetically similar ...

Fire ants are extraordinarily resilient for their tiny size. They can survive fires, they carry potentially-deadly toxic venom, and they can strip small rodents down to a skeleton. They even build ...