In humans, social complexity usually involves clear governance hierarchies, with leaders and middle managers directing our ...

We introduce you to the incredible exploding ant that lays down their life for the benefit of the colony in a spectacular way ...

This video details the growth and development of a Western Harvester Ant colony over 30 days, showcasing their expansion from a small tube to a thriving community. It documents their lifestyle, ...

An ant colony in Poland has been the focus of scientists for several years now. More accurately, the scientists are studying two colonies, one "normal" colony of wood ants who live in a dirt mound on ...

For the past several years, a group of researchers has been observing a seemingly impossible wood ant colony living in an abandoned nuclear weapons bunker in Templewo, Poland, near the German border.

How do ant colonies manage the nutrients in their food? Biologists have shown that an ant colony functions like a "collective mouth and gut". The members of a colony are capable of dealing with the ...

Like a brain, an ant colony operates without central control. Each is a set of interacting individuals, either neurons or ants, using simple chemical interactions that in the aggregate generate their ...

The “Ants and Agriculture” exhibit in the Microbial Sciences Building closed Thursday with staff and students gathering to say their goodbyes to the ant colony. Forty people watched as the Currie Lab ...

Yet tiny-brained ants, working without leaders or blueprints, have been solving problems like these for millions of years – and no, the queen isn’t the boss telling them what to do.      By almost any ...