A team of physicists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel has found that when ants of a certain species collectively carry a large object, they do so in a way that mimics a self-propelled ...

The matchmaking service is a tactic to avoid inbreeding. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Worker ants are known to take on many ...

This wounded ant (Megaponera analis), with two termites clinging to it, is alive but likely too exhausted after battle to get back to the nest without help. Leave no man behind. That's an old idea in ...

Ants working together to carry a large piece of food get around obstacles by switching between two types of motion: one that favors squeezing the morsel through a hole and another to seek a path ...

Like people, ants are often at war. The matabele ant, a small black species native to sub-Saharan Africa, often clashes with its favorite food—termites. Each time hungry ants crack open a termite ...

Ants in Australia's semi-arid areas routinely carry seeds half their size over distances of 50 metres, and in some cases hundreds of metres, new research has found. The study, published in a recent ...

Ants have been documented to be able to carry up to twenty times their own body weight. If a human could lift twenty times their body weight that would be about 4,000 pounds. Ant biologist Fred ...

The royal matchmaking service may help these insects avoid inbreeding. By Richard Sima We humans have Tinder, Hinge, eHarmony and Grindr. For other animals, there’s a real dearth of matchmaking ...

Leave no man behind. That's an old idea in warfare — it's even part of the Soldier's Creed that Army recruits learn in basic training. And never leaving a fallen comrade is also the rule for some ...