The Amazon rainforest is home to some of the most unusual and, in some cases, dangerous on earth that show little care or ...

Researchers have discovered that in a foraging ant's search for food, it will leave pheromone trails connecting its colony to multiple food sources when they're available, successfully creating the ...

For centuries we have believed that humans were unique in our ability to farm and cultivate our own food. However, it turns ...

Over time, leafcutter ants have evolved a complex system of agriculture in their nests, cultivating bumper crops of fungi that are the ants' sole food source. Foragers cut pieces of leaves from ...

ADAM:'Leaf cutter ants, despite their name, don't eat leaves. They bring them into the nest as a food supply for the fungus they're growing inside and it's the fungus that they eat. ADAM:'Our ants ...