Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An ant species can amputate each other's legs and can also determine whether it is needed depending on the location of the wound, ...

Researchers have documented a stunning, and frankly ruthless, behavior unfolding inside certain ant colonies. According to a new study published in Current Biology on Monday, Nov. 17, several species ...

Understanding ant activity on bodies can help us reconstruct the events that occurred at the time of death and during early post-mortem periods. For the first time, a study has been carried out ...

Researchers from the University of Hong Kong and the University of Würzburg in Germany found that there are more ants than there are birds and mammals combined on Earth. In a recent study published in ...

Ants are packing up their families, including their queen, and hopping in a car for a ride to a new area where they can set up a home, according to a recent study. Yang recently published a paper in ...

A bill introduced in North Carolina General Assembly could lead to a new study on controlling the fire ant population. House bill 513 would create a legislative study committee on the impact and ...

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It's not just people who love the food in New York City. So do certain ants. The most common species of ant found on the pavements of New York City and in cities around the world has a taste for human ...