A group of scientists created a city of a million ants to study how they worked and found how each of them was able to work ...

Animals are often capable of far more than we give them credit for and a scientific discovery at an abandoned ant hill ...

A newly described ant species found in Japan reproduces without males and maintains colonies composed entirely of queens, a ...

Ants are many things. They’re hard workers and intensely social. They’re quite strong for their size. And now they may also be a source of architectural inspiration too — for designing spaces that ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

According to a new study out of Rockefeller University, the way that ant colonies make group decisions closely mimics the way neurons behave in the human brain. In other words, they follow a colony ...

Biologist E.O. Wilson once wrote that "ants are the most warlike of all animals," noting that clashes between ant colonies dwarfed the human battles at Waterloo and Gettysburg. But sometimes ant ...

Ant colony nests are known for their impenetrability. These highly organized insect societies will soon detect an intruder’s ...