The rainforests of northern Australia are home to extraordinary ant colonies. Instead of dwelling in underground burrows, these ants inhabit canopies of trees, dozens of meters above the ground, ...

Ant societies rely on precise recognition systems to maintain cooperation, but new research reveals that these systems are ...

In this video, I raised a queen trap-jaw ant into an entire ant colony and simulated real-world events to observe the ants' reactions. The unexpected ending sets the stage for another video. #ants #an ...

Humans are not the only animals to have a dedicated health care system. Some super-organized ant species not only recognize that their comrade is injured but actually carry them back to the ant nest ...

Nigel Andrew is an editor of Austral Ecology and subject editor (Zoology) for PeerJ. He played no part in the double-blind peer-review process of the Austral Ecology research paper this article draws ...

An ant that can turn carbon dioxide in the air into dolomite stone in its exoskeleton may hold clues to how humans can sequester greenhouse gases to avert climate disaster. Fungus-farming ants forage ...

Some butterfly species can’t grow unless they trick ants into taking them home with a complex rhythmic signal. By Rebecca Dzombak Rebecca Dzombak has reported on parasitic ant queens and the number of ...

Life may look like a paradise for beetles living in ant colonies. Plump, wriggling ant larvae and helpless eggs sit waiting to be devoured, while hundreds of thousands of ants stand at the ready to ...

Some baby ants don’t ask for help when they contract deadly infections — they ask to be killed. Terminally ill worker ant pupae actively emit a “find me and destroy me” chemical signal, prompting ...

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"By warning the colony of their deadly infection, terminally ill ants help the colony remain healthy and produce daughter colonies, which indirectly pass on the signaler’s genes to the next generation ...