Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dinoponera gigantea, the largest species of ant, is much larger on display at the Bruce Museum, where former museum staffer Dan ...

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 ...

A harvester ant typically approaches a cone ant nest and stands upright with her mandibles open (all worker ants are female).

As army ants travel over uneven terrain, they link their bodies together to create bridges — a system that might give engineers insight into... Army ants use collective intelligence to build bridges.

Ants are generally known as small insects that roam around in groups and work for their colonies, but what if some 50 million years ago, some species are as large as small birds? Indeed, there are, ...

Army ants infamously visit destruction upon thousands of unlucky insects, but new findings highlight one of the ways the insects bolster biodiversity as well. The hodgepodge collections of food waste ...