These evolutionary adaptations for slavery represent some of the most specialized warfare behaviors in the natural world, with some slave-making species entirely dependent on successful raids for ...

The Asian Weaver Ant has been documented carrying objects up to 100 ... The principles of distributed load-bearing observed in ant colonies have influenced structural engineering approaches for ...

In the forest canopies of equatorial Africa and Asia, weaver ants construct spectacular swaglike nests of leaves stitched together with silken threads extracted from the colony’s larval ranks.

Ants use complex mathematical principles like optimization, geometry, and network theory to build efficient colonies, navigate terrain, divide resources, and make collective decisions—proving nature’s ...

Ant colonies are master organizers, dividing work with incredible precision. Learn how mathematical principles guide their teamwork, efficiency, and survival strategies in this fascinating look at ...

Kenyan police who raided a national park guesthouse earlier this month aimed not to bust elephant tusk or rhino horn poachers ...

Researchers have discovered a never-before-seen species of "hell ant" that lived 113 million years ago, making it the oldest ...

Seizures of queens taken from giant African harvester ant colonies at about 1.2 million Kenyan shillings. Queen ants are vital for any colony as they are the only ones capable of laying eggs that grow ...

They are popular for artificial ant habitats due to their complex colony-building capabilities. A single ant can retail for more than $130 in the West, Reuters reported. “This case not only marks a ...

Ants work from home (yours, that is) Ants owe much of their success to their highly social nature. Within the colony, some individuals (female queens and male drones) are responsible for ...

NAIROBI – Kenyan police who raided a national park guesthouse earlier in April aimed not to bust elephant tusk or rhino horn poachers, but a more esoteric ring trading a much smaller, more ...

Kenyan police nab Belgian teens for trafficking queen ants from giant African harvester species Seized queen ants valued at $9,300 locally but could have fetched $1 million in Europe Ant smuggling ...