These connect to small chambers where the ants rest, eat, and feed the babies until it's time to move the little ones again. Now, there's one more type of tunnel inside the nest, but only a few ...

Insects like ants heal their fellow species, and they even perform surgeries. Biologist Erik Frank is researching their ...

The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants help the endangered species transcend its small stature in the natural world.

At its heart is a massive, full-scale ant nest, specially designed and built to allow cameras to see its inner workings. The nest is a new home for a million-strong colony of leafcutter ants from ...

Ants learn from past encounters, showing more aggression toward familiar aggressive rivals and less toward passive ones. This ...