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 ...

As is the case with many ant species, not all of the ants of the species behave in this manner, and the exploding trick is typically displayed by front-line workers who are the colony’s first ...

When confronted by an enemy, Southeast Asian “exploding ants” do exactly what their name implies: they explode. Ignored for decades, researchers have completed a detailed survey of these ...

When fighting doesn’t work and when their poison squads fail, the ants sometimes have to retreat back to their holes. And they refer the rearguard action to a special type of soldier: ...

A new group of exploding ant called Colobopsis explodens was identified in a research paper this week. The "explodens" name isn't just for show – these ants actually explode with toxic yellow ...

Related: Why you should avoid floating red ant colonies during floods Researchers have known about exploding ants since the early 1900’s, but they haven’t recognized a new species of exploding ant ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of “exploding ant” which sacrifices itself when attacked to protect the rest of the colony. Exploding ants were first observed in 1916, but little is ...

Researchers in Austria, Thailand and Brunei identified roughly 15 separate species of exploding ants in SE Asia. They sacrifice themselves by exploding their guts, releasing a toxic poisonous ...

Ants are awesome little creatures and we already know that they have advanced survival tactics in battle, but the “exploding ants” that are found in Southeast Asia take the “colony first ...

High up in the treetops of Borneo live “exploding ants,” so named because of their unique defensive behavior. When a potential enemy threatens their colony, these ants kill themselves by ...