A tiny fossil preserved in 16 million-year-old amber revealed an extinct Caribbean species that mastered the art of ...

Photomicrograph of Basiceros enana, a newly discovered extinct dirt ant species preserved in Dominican amber, formed from ...

The revolutionary discovery debunks previous beliefs about dirt ants and even geography. Here's what they found.

Learn about the extinct species of "dirt ant" that was found in 16-million-year-old Dominican amber, adding an important ...

Kenyan authorities say alleged ant smugglers represent "a shift in trafficking trends — from iconic large mammals to ...

The men, including two Belgian teenagers, pleaded guilty to smuggling thousands of live queen ants, which the Kenyan ...

Two Belgian teenagers, David Lornoy and Seppe Lodewijckx admitted in court that they attempted to traffic thousands of queen ...

A team of scientists set out to determine how many ants live on Earth at any given time. The answer is astounding, to say the least.

Move over big game smuggling, the new prize is small exotic ants for pricey ant farms. Mr. Funk was the managing editor of ...

Four men have pleaded guilty in Kenya to trying to smuggle hundreds of highly sought-after ants out of the country. The Kenya ...

The Kenyan Wildlife Service said the case was a shift from smuggling larger mammals to "ecologically critical species." The ...