Long before the dawn of modern parenting, animals laid eggs and moved on, leaving their progeny to fend for themselves. Now, ...

The ballista spider builds sophisticated spring-loaded snares to catapult its prey. Newly discovered, the ballista spider ...

There are 20 quadrillion ants on Earth —that’s 2.5 million ants for every human. Known ant species (members of the family ...

A newly discovered spider in Queensland builds a four-hour silk catapult that uses aggressive ants to trigger their own ...

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The ant mounds on the heath, in the forest and in your garden are oases for life. The heat and nutrients from ant mounds make them the perfect home for unique plant and animal species, according to ...

A dead ant can be detected and removed from the nest within an hour, long before any rotting smell develops. The chemical ...

Lead researcher Professor Ajay Narendra said the trap may even be chemically baited.

If an ant is injured, its conspecifics take care of the injured animal. If the injury is to the thigh, the limb is amputated.

You've probably never seen a Dracula ant, as these elusive insects spend their days tunneling through the leaf litter and soil of tropical forests in Africa, Australia, and Southeast Asia, rarely ...

When the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia last week presented its Leidy Medal to Dr. William Morton Wheeler, internationally famed zoologist, longtime Dean of the Bussey Institution for ...