Humans are not the only animals to have a dedicated health care system. Some super-organized ant species not only recognize ...

According to a new study out of Rockefeller University, the way that ant colonies make group decisions closely mimics the way neurons behave in the human brain. In other words, they follow a colony ...

To ants, survival of the fittest is a sham. A new study has found that instead of competing for resources, working together has evolutionary advantages. A team of scientists led by Daniel Kronauer, an ...

Some people change careers, and it seems that the Harpegnathos saltator ant can do the same; worker ants can switch to queen-like figures that are known as gamergates. Worker ants are not able to ...

Explores the intricate lives of ants in a bustling ant colony, likened to a city with a population of half a million. It highlights the social structure of ants, where worker ants perform various ...

Animal communication is a key innovation that allows a species to find resources, perceive danger and respond to it as a group. When these interactions scale up into complexity they start to define ...

Scent is essential to ant society: every ant within a colony wears the badge of membership in the form of smelly hydrocarbons ...

It was a cloudy spring day in late March and the temperature was just above 40 degrees. After several days of damp weather and cooler temperatures, I decided to take a walk along the Ice Age Trail on ...