As individuals, driver ants are small and relatively insignificant creatures. But as a colony, they transform into a huge and ...

If you have ever watched ants move, you might have noticed that they almost always walk in a neat line, one behind the other. While it may look like discipline or training, scientists say this pattern ...

Ants are hard workers, but they’re not multitaskers: They have to stop to think. Temnothorax albipennis worker ants typically need a pit stop to change their travel plans, researchers in England ...

A team of physicists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel has found that when ants of a certain species collectively carry a large object, they do so in a way that mimics a self-propelled ...

Army ants build living bridges by linking their bodies to span gaps and create shortcuts across rainforests in Central and South America. An international team of researchers has now discovered these ...