The U.S. Forest Service is giving kids (and adults) the chance to submit name suggestions for a recently discovered species of ant, as an exercise to teach students how new species get their ...

Starting a colony is a dangerous enterprise - so some ants find creative and brutal techniques to take over other queens’ ...

When goods are shipped into the country, sometimes they are not the only cargo. Sometimes they can bring in unwanted stowaways: invasive species. Invasive species are non-native organisms that make ...

What makes the little old ant think he can disrupt the life of an African lion? Researchers say it’s more than just high hopes. In a study published today in the journal Science, a team of scientists ...

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide.