Ant genomes reveal how social insects evolved cooperation, preserved caste genes, and rewired chromosomes over 100 million ...

For more than a hundred years, scientists have studied the strange partnership between ants and seeds. In this relationship, ...

A new 113-million-year-old ant fossil was discovered preserved in limestone in Brazil. ... suggesting unique hunting behaviors.” The Haidomyrmecinae fossil was found in Brazil’s Crato Formation.

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds a report published in Current Biology. The hell ant, which was ...

"Asian needle ants have a potent and painful sting, but they’re not aggressive like fire ants. They usually only sting when ...