Come along on a guided tour of the strangest animals in Cincinnati's strangest neighborhood, from fungus-eating ants to a ...

The color drained from Scott Fisher’s face when a member of the Maui Invasive Species Committee told him a little red fire ...

One tiny red ant has Maui conservation crews on high alert. A single little fire ant was found last week inside the Waihe'e Coastal Dunes and Wetlands Refuge, and experts say that lone insect could ...

As the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) enters its 200th year as a charity, keepers at London Zoo have started counting every animal for its annual stocktake. The zoo is home to more than 8,000 ...

Ant species that evolved thinner shells traded individual armor protection for increases in colony size, enabling improved food gathering, task organization and defense, according to researchers from ...

Ants are tiny creatures with incredible social structures, but their behaviors often leave us scratching our heads. While many of their actions have logical explanations in the context of their ...

Q: I have leaf cutter ants attacking my crape myrtle for the fourth time. I’ve used poison at the entry to their nests, and it seems to work for two to three months. They really like this crape myrtle ...

Scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama discovered that carrying oversized loads limits the ability to perceive the trail in leafcutter ants, akin to blind spots ...

We have all been in that situation: the moving boxes are large and heavy, but we are determined to carry them all in one trip, even if that means we can’t see where we’re going. In the tropics, some ...