A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has shown in a new study that ants returning from habitats ...

Watch this intriguing experiment as a hard-boiled egg half is left out for ants, captured with stunning time-lapse footage. Discover how an ant colony systematically consumes and decomposes both the ...

An experiment to make woodland more resilient has seen hairy wood ant nests relocated across forests. Forestry England moved six colonies with thousands of ants from Cropton Forest in North Yorkshire ...

When an ant injures its leg, it sometimes will turn to a buddy who will help out by gnawing the leg off, effectively performing a lifesaving limb amputation. That's according to some new experiments ...

Can ants count? Not out loud they can't. Not the way you and I count. But an ingenious experiment conducted in the Sahara suggests maybe ants do count. Harald Wolf of the University of Ulm and his ...