The classic thought experiment about a horse-sized duck and a hundred duck-sized horses is more than a joke. It captures a ...

Anyone who has dealt with ants in the kitchen knows that ants are highly social creatures; it's rare to see one alone. Humans are social creatures too, even if some of us enjoy solitude. Ants and ...

Young, infected Lasius neglectus ants will send out an altruistic "kill me" signal to worker ants, a new study finds, as part ...

Invasive species can cause all kinds of problems, from outcompeting native animals to wiping out crops and causing massive ...

An experiment to make woodland more resilient has seen hairy wood ant nests relocated across forests. Forestry England moved six colonies with thousands of ants from Cropton Forest in North Yorkshire ...

When an ant injures its leg, it sometimes will turn to a buddy who will help out by gnawing the leg off, effectively performing a lifesaving limb amputation. That's according to some new experiments ...

Can ants count? Not out loud they can't. Not the way you and I count. But an ingenious experiment conducted in the Sahara suggests maybe ants do count. Harald Wolf of the University of Ulm and his ...

Ants in space is not the premise for the latest Dreamworks film, but for an experiment carried out aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Eight colonies of common ants were flown up to the ISS ...