STORY: Four ant smugglers will be sentenced after pleading guilty to charges of illegal possession and trafficking of live wildlife. The group called themselves the “ant gang”, according to prosecutor ...

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Scientists say they have for the first time unlocked how a parasitic ant uses chemical warfare to take over the nest of a different species, by tricking workers into an unlikely assassination.The ...

(CNN) — Researchers have uncovered an unusual survival strategy in Iberian harvester ants that turns basic biology on its head: The queens can produce eggs that develop into two different ant species.

An ant may be responsible for the most painful sting from a bug in the world, but different ants have different lifestyles. In some species, queen ants do the weirdest thing after their dramatic ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) -A Kenyan court on Wednesday fined four men $7,700 each for trying to traffic thousands of ants valuable to the country's ecosystem, in cases experts say signal a shift in biopiracy ...

Scientists document a new form of host manipulation where an invading, parasitic ant queen “tricks” ant workers into killing their queen mother. The invading ant integrates herself into the nest by ...

MONTPELLIER, France — Researchers have uncovered an unusual survival strategy in Iberian harvester ants that turns basic biology on its head: The queens can produce eggs that develop into two ...