If you've ever been stung by a wasp or a bee, you know how much it hurts. Now imagine that pain elevated to the searing of a gunshot wound, and you get the bullet ant. The bullet ant -- Paraponera ...

Discover the Dinoponera, Earth's largest ant, reaching up to 4 cm! These South American giants boast a unique queenless ...

A bullet ant displays its fangs while sitting on a leaf. Ants that inflict the world's most painful stings do so by injecting venom that targets their victim's nerve cells, new research has found.

Ants may be small, but some species pack a powerful punch with their venom. Among these, the South American bullet ant (Paraponera clavata) is famous for delivering one of the most excruciating stings ...

Some ant species are aggressive and pose danger. Encounters are becoming common due to growing cities and shifting weather. Bullet ant sting causes electric shock-like pain. Maricopa harvester ant ...

What has a worse sting a Japanese giant hornet or bullet ant? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answer ...

Ant expert Adrian Smith, of the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences, says up front that he doesn't “expect movies to be scientifically accurate.” But Smith agreed to fact-check the Ant-Man movies in ...

For the past several years, a group of researchers has been observing a seemingly impossible wood ant colony living in an abandoned nuclear weapons bunker in Templewo, Poland, near the German border.

If you think leafcutter ants are harmless little fellas with a knack for making their own salads, let wildlife expert Coyote Peterson convince you otherwise. Warning: if you’re the least bit squeamish ...