As individuals, driver ants are small and relatively insignificant creatures. But as a colony, they transform into a huge and ...

The classic thought experiment about a horse-sized duck and a hundred duck-sized horses is more than a joke. It captures a ...

A fossil of Manipulonyx reshetovi, found in a Mongolian desert, shows how the dinosaur used its specialized claw to snatch ...

Some of the Amazon rainforest’s remotest reaches lie not in Brazil, but in Ecuador. A weeklong river cruise reveals the creatures, plants, and people that define this extraordinary region.

He’s turned a monkey into a waiter and made sculptures out of bees — for his next trick, Pierre Huyghe is entering the ...

I never had ant problems, until we moved to California. The ants that invaded our house were different from any ants I had ...

Have you ever noticed how clever animals are when it comes to making a home? We talk about smart houses and innovative ...

Deep inside an ant nest, some of the youngest members are primed to die for the group. When infection strikes, these baby ...

“For ants, it’s just a general hygiene thing – keeping your things cleaned up and tidy. It’s a similar sort of thing with ...

It's the size of a 10-cent piece and matures under the guard of protective ants, but the purple copper butterfly needs more ...

When infected by a fungal disease, ant pupae actively emit a chemical cue that prompts workers to get rid of them for the ...

Discover eight animals with shockingly long tongues and how evolution shaped their extraordinary feeding adaptations.