Almost wherever you go on Earth, you will find ants! The only places that do not have any are Antarctica, Greenland, Iceland, ...

Ants are generally known as small insects that roam around in groups and work for their colonies, but what if some 50 million years ago, some species are as large as small birds? Indeed, there are, ...

The fossil extinct giant ant Titanomyrma from Wyoming that was discovered over a decade ago by SFU paleontologist Bruce Archibald and collaborators at the Denver Museum. The fossil queen ant is next ...

Clonal raider ants carrying and grooming larvae. Ants were tagged with colored dots to allow for behavioral observation. Credit: Daniel Kronauer Many ant species have a queen, the member of the colony ...

Analysis - The illegal trade in giant African harvester ants endangers local biodiversity and could spread invasive species in destination countries.

Fourteen nests of the ponerine ant Paltothyreus tarsatus were excavated in Kenya and in the Ivory Coast. All colonies contained only one mated queen. The worker population varied markedly between ...