Air pollution may be turning ants against their own families, according to new research which suggests that such pollution ...

Ants rely on scent to recognise their comrades, and when they are exposed to common air pollutants, other members of their ...

A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has shown in a new study that ants returning from habitats ...

A study conducted by Princeton University together with researchers from the New Jersey Institute of Technology has found that ants can build a bridge made up of the bodies of worker ants. This ...

A new study finds that ants are not adjusting their behavior in response to warming temperatures, persisting in sub-optimal microhabitats even when optimal ones were present. The finding suggests ants ...

(CNN) — Humans aren’t the only ones capable of performing amputations to save lives. Florida carpenter ants have been observed biting off the injured limbs of nestmates, depending on the location of ...

New research offers fresh insight into how different morphological types and social roles emerge in ant societies, confirming that size is coupled to caste, with genes ultimately deciding how size and ...

Scientists have discovered that Florida carpenter ants perform life-saving amputations on injured nestmates, a level of medical intervention previously only observed in humans. The ants assess wound ...