Ants are among the most physically fragile insects on the planet, yet they dominate almost every land habitat and outweigh ...

Some ants thrive by choosing numbers over strength. Instead of heavily protecting each worker, they invest fewer resources in ...

Learn how ants traded individual protection for collective power — and what it reveals about how complex societies evolve.

A new study shows how ants grow huge colonies by choosing numbers over strength and relying on teamwork instead of tough ...

The rapid diversification of ants has “led to their role as ecological engineers” that can work in habitats across the world, ...

Would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses? As silly as it sounds, the question captures a real ...

Biologist E.O. Wilson once wrote that "ants are the most warlike of all animals," noting that clashes between ant colonies dwarfed the human battles at Waterloo and Gettysburg. But sometimes ant ...

Tiny pharaoh ants invade buildings and hospitals, moving along walls and pipes, defying all conventional control methods.

Here’s a fun (and creepy) fact: The Earth is home to approximately 20 quadrillion ants. To put zeroes on it, that’s around 20,000,000,000,000,000 of the six-legged insects living all around us. How ...