There’s safety, even power, in numbers. One creature’s confrontation with the world seems insurmountable, almost impossible, but an army of those little creatures can move mountains. And no creature ...

Drexel University researchers sampled a variety of army ant (Eciton burchellii parvispinum) colonies to test how their habitat distribution affected the ants’ tolerances of extreme low and high ...

As part of its epic 10-part journey across the American supercontinent, The Americas takes viewers into the heart of the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest and a hotbed of biodiversity. It covers ...

At the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, researchers track swarms of carnivorous army ants and the birds that follow them. A new documentary reveals a glimpse of life, and research, in the ...

In humans, social complexity usually involves clear governance hierarchies, with leaders and middle managers directing our ...

Biologist E.O. Wilson once wrote that "ants are the most warlike of all animals," noting that clashes between ant colonies dwarfed the human battles at Waterloo and Gettysburg. But sometimes ant ...

Studying army ants for a living comes with certain occupational hazards. "They're very aggressive," says Isabella Muratore at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. "They have venom, so they will ...

The ant photographs of Mark Moffett, a Harvard-trained insect scientist, are often compared to art. Moffett has a unique ability to capture the alien beauty of these deceptively simple creatures. In ...

There are 20 quadrillion ants on Earth —that’s 2.5 million ants for every human. Known ant species (members of the family ...