In the wild, appearances can be deceiving, and today's story proves just that. You’d never expect a solitary anteater to face ...

Ants that feed on spotted lanternfly honeydew carry their DNA. Researchers test ants to detect lanternflies early.

The mind-controlling “zombie” fungus, which served as the inspiration for the video game and post-apocalyptic TV show The ...

Genny C is one of the oldest African elephants in conservation care after arriving at the zoo in 1979. Zoo Superintendent Bob ...

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Like mercenaries of the natural world, fire ants are hardy, resilient, and vicious. They’ve become an invasive species thanks ...

Asian needle ants may be small, but this invasive ant species represents a serious ecological threat to North America. Here's ...

Once mostly found in the Deep South, fire ants—especially the red imported fire ant and hybrid species—are now moving north ...

Researchers thought colder temperatures and higher elevations could stop the march of invasive fire ants. Mother Nature had ...

Published in the Journal of Hymenoptera Research, their findings indicated that the little fire ant — also known as the electric ant — could have appeared from imported plants. Human activities from ...

In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have ...

Leafcutter ants live in highly organized colonies where every ant has a job, and now researchers can flip those jobs like a switch. By manipulating just two neuropeptides, scientists can turn ...