How complex ant societies emerged among ants’ solitary ancestors remains one of the big mysteries of social insect biology. Ants are eusocial, meaning that they have overlapping generations, ...

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Everything in the ant hill seems to need the liquid secretions from members of the colony that are in their pupal stage. By Joshua Sokol Orli Snir, a biologist at the Rockefeller University in New ...

For the first time, researchers have observed ants secreting a milk-like fluid that nourishes others in the colony. The research, published in Nature on 30 November, reveals that as pupae—an otherwise ...

One of the great puzzles of evolutional biology is what induced certain living creatures to abandon solitary existence in favor of living in collaborative societies, as seen in the case of ants and ...

When most people think about hibernation, they picture bears snoozing away the cold winter in their dens. You’re right that other animals do that, too. I talked about your question with my friend ...