Though an individual ant doesn't seem very smart, a group of these insects can perform amazingly complex behaviors. Listen as Ted Schultz, Research Entomologist at Smithsonian's National Museum of ...

Ant colonies with a higher degree of genetic diversity thrive better than those that consist of individuals with more similar genetic backgrounds. This is the conclusion of an experimental study in ...

This video showcases the expansion of a Western Harvester Ant colony over the past 30 days. It documents their lifestyle, ...

A new study suggests that ants as a group behave like networks of neurons in a brain. Temperatures are rising, and one colony of ants will soon have to make a collective decision. Each ant feels the ...

Millions of army ants occasionally stream out of their nest in a coordinated hunting swarm, seeking prey to devour. How this extraordinary mass raiding behavior evolved has long been a mystery, until ...

Ant colonies behave as 'superorganisms' rather than collections of individuals, a study from the University of Bristol has demonstrated. The study seeks to explain the behaviour of ant colonies as ...

The ant species Leptothorax acervorum is found throughout the Northern hemisphere. While many populations have multiple queens, a few have only one queen that reproduces. And in those societies, ...

In one ant species, a single female holds absolute reproductive power over her entire colony through a brutal act performed ...

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide. The scientist E.O. Wilson once wrote that ants are the most warlike of all ...