Ants are among the most familiar creatures on Earth, yet scientists continue to uncover abilities that seem almost ...

Now, a new study suggests that body size and caste go hand in hand. Bigger ants generally become queens, while smaller ants become workers, and both genes and the environment influence how big an ant ...

Carpenter ants, which include more than a thousand species in the genus Camponotus, nest in wood and can be destructive to ...

A University of Liverpool study of ants across three continents has revealed that their colour and size is strongly influenced by their environment, and that the dominant colour and average body size ...

They might not be able to leap tall buildings with a single bound, but leaf-cutting ants are insect superheroes, capable of carrying leaf pieces up to six times their body mass to cultivate fungus in ...

Researchers combine phylogenetic reconstructions and computational behavioral analysis to show that army ant mass raiding evolved from group raiding through the scaling effects of increasing colony ...

A study of ants across three continents has revealed that their color and size is strongly influenced by their environment, and that the dominant color and average body size can change from year to ...