The rapid diversification of ants has “led to their role as ecological engineers” that can work in habitats across the world, ...

Almost wherever you go on Earth, you will find ants! The only places that do not have any are Antarctica, Greenland, Iceland, and some island nations. Not only are they widespread, but there are also ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (The Conversation) – Have you ever wondered ...

The closest thing so far to an ant census has been conducted by researchers at the University of Hong Kong. Ready to know how many ants there are on Earth? 20,000,000,000,000,000. That’s right, and ...

Kspeka joins host Robin Young to talk about ants, including the spiny queen, who invades colonies of carpenter ants using a ...

It’s the ants’ world, and we’re just visiting. A new estimate for the total number of ants burrowing and buzzing on Earth comes to a whopping total of nearly 20 quadrillion individuals. That ...

High up on a remote mountain in Australia, a string of ants with mohawk-like hair went about their day. Nearby researchers spotted the “punk-rock conga line” — and snapped some first-of-their-kind ...

Tales from the Ant World, by famed naturalist E. O. Wilson, is full of interesting, absorbable facts about ants (at the time of writing 15,438 species had been recognized, with Wilson estimating ...

A well-known portrait of Edward Osborne Wilson shows the smiling Harvard professor hovering, like a benevolent god, over some models of his cherished leafcutter ants. The photograph serves as the ...