We usually think bigger animals are more dangerous, but did you know that some of the smallest creatures can be just as ...
Ants began farming fungi 66 million years ago post-asteroid impact, with leafcutter ants evolving advanced agricultural ...
A new North Carolina State University study finds that climate change could be destabilizing the mutualistic relationships ...
“Tropical fire ants have been in Hawaii since the 1880s, but the recently introduced Little Fire Ants are a different species ...
Led by North Carolina State University, the study focused on the mutualistic relationship between specific ant species and ...
The researchers suggest that the climate changes that accompanied the transition to the Oligocene included a drying out of the tropical Americas, where the fungus-farming ants had evolved.
University of Queensland researchers have uncovered the workings of ant venom by measuring electric currents through ...
In South America, drier habitats like woody savannas and grasslands fractured large swaths of wet, tropical forests. When ants took fungi out of the wet forests and into drier areas, they isolated ...
In South America, drier habitats like woody savannas and grasslands fractured large swaths of wet, tropical forests. When ants took fungi out of the wet forests and into drier areas, they isolated ...
A new North Carolina State University study finds that climate change could be destabilizing the mutualistic relationships ...
A species of ant has been found for the first time on the Isle of Man by a volunteer with a conservation group. Manx Wildlife ...
The researchers studied the potent sting of the West African ant (Tetramorium africanum) discovering a toxin within the venom ...