Ants are tiny creatures with incredible social structures, but their behaviors often leave us scratching our heads. While ...

Scientists document a rare form of social parasitism in which invading queens weaponize chemistry and worker ants to dethrone ...

Scientists newly described how a parasitic ant queen infiltrates another ant species’ colony and tricks the workers into killing their mother.

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide.

Tribal officials have identified a second case of chronic wasting disease on the Flathead Indian Reservation. A sample from a white-tailed deer harvested Nov. 3 tested positive for the fatal ...

Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world responded with public health measures, including nationwide lockdowns, social distancing measures, and travel restrictions. The idea was that ...

Ants are many things. They're hard workers and intensely social. They're quite strong for their size. And now they may also be a source of architectural inspiration too — for designing spaces that ...

One kind of tiny ant can serve as a monumental example for how to keep members of a community safe from pathogens. A new study shows how they do it. Some ant architects design a colony to cut the risk ...