Like people, ants are often at war. The matabele ant, a small black species native to sub-Saharan Africa, often clashes with its favorite food—termites. Each time hungry ants crack open a termite ...

It’s an ant-help-ant world. Ants have been seen carrying their wounded comrades back to the nest after raids on termite colonies ­- an unexpected behaviour in social insects that usually appear to ...

Long before humans discovered agriculture 10,000 years ago, leafcutter ants started to farm fungi—55 to 60 million years ago. The leafcutter ants don't consume the leaves they collect. Their food does ...

London Scientists now understand how the ants maintain their stability as their carry heavy loads. The study, which appears in the Journal of Comparative Physiology A, demonstrated that an ant's neck ...

NEWARK, N.J. (CBS/AP) — A United flight arriving at Newark Liberty International Airport had to be taken out of service after ants from a carry-on bag appeared in part of the cabin. A passenger on the ...

Ants in Australia's semi-arid areas routinely carry seeds half their size over distances of 50 metres, and in some cases hundreds of metres, new research has found. The study, published in a recent ...

This wounded ant (Megaponera analis), with two termites clinging to it, is alive but likely too exhausted after battle to get back to the nest without help. Leave no man behind. That's an old idea in ...

Leave no man behind. That's an old idea in warfare — it's even part of the Soldier's Creed that Army recruits learn in basic training. And never leaving a fallen comrade is also the rule for some ...