Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A close-up of an ant crawling on a glass window with a blurred high-rise city building in the background.© A-Z Animals Most ants ...

Weaver ants have cracked a teamwork challenge humans have struggled with for centuries. New research shows that individual weaver ants get stronger as their group grows, a sharp contrast to human ...

Tanya Latty co-founded and volunteers for conservation organisation Invertebrates Australia, is former president of the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour and is on the education ...

A team of researchers led by Auburn University Assistant Professor Clint Penick studied ants like these, which are easily found in the Southeastern United States. Auburn University Assistant Professor ...

Ants have evolved an acute sense of smell, which requires each sensory neuron to choose one scent receptor out of hundreds. In a new study published in Nature, researchers at New York University have ...

Most ants are less than an inch long, making them very small insects. While their petite stature may seem like a problem for survival, it actually has many practical benefits. For one, they can ...