Stories of camel spiders and their aggressive nature have been told for generations. Tales of these critters running at high ...

A groundbreaking study has uncovered that ants actively modify their nest networks to combat the spread of diseases within ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, we had to completely reorganize our spaces to avoid close contact. Transparent barriers ...

They recently discovered that Iberian harvester ant queens are able to produce offspring of a completely different species, going against our current understanding of nature and biology. Ant colonies ...

An ant colony that survived for years in post-soviet nuclear weapon bunker by turning to cannibalism, has been assisted to freedom. Researchers have successfully evacuated a wood ant colony, of the ...

The “Ants and Agriculture” exhibit in the Microbial Sciences Building closed Thursday with staff and students gathering to say their goodbyes to the ant colony. Forty people watched as the Currie Lab ...

Like a brain, an ant colony operates without central control. Each is a set of interacting individuals, either neurons or ants, using simple chemical interactions that in the aggregate generate their ...

Ants have an incredible capacity to work together for the good of the collective, but a freshly discovered species shows just how far they are willing to go. Colobopsis explodens has been observed in ...

A supercolony of ants has been discovered stretching thousands of miles from the Italian Riviera along the coastline to northwest Spain. It's the largest cooperative unit ever recorded, according to ...

A new exhibition at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Conn., gives visitors a whiff, from “chocolate-y” to stinky blue cheese.