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

Anatomy of a superorganism The ant colony is sometimes referred to as a superorganism—one unified entity composed of many organisms working in concert.

Ants may respond to disturbances in their nest as one highly organized 'superorganism', according to a new study.

Research predicts growth, survival of 'superorganism' ant colonies Date: December 19, 2012 Source: Missouri University of Science and Technology Summary: Smaller ant colonies tend to live faster ...

Nature How Ants Respond to Predators Suggests Superorganism Capabilities By Eben Bein Tuesday, December 1, 2015 NOVA Next ...

Ant genomes reveal how social insects evolved cooperation, preserved caste genes, and rewired chromosomes over 100 million ...

New research reveals how ants can assemble themselves into rafts, and it could create better waterproof jackets -- and robots that can assemble themselves too.

The only good army ant---. These magnificent warriors are only ants after all, and only formidable in the gigantic numbers of a Dorylus army in Africa. The flying males, “sausage flies,” that are ...

Superorganism launched on Wednesday to be a venture firm solely focused on biodiversity and nature. The firm was started by Tom Quigley, a former conservationist, and Kevin Webb, a VC and angel ...

These tiny worms form coordinated structures, contradicting our understanding of collective behaviors in simple organisms. This observation, long confined to laboratories, has finally been documented ...

For the first time, researchers have observed ants secreting a milk-like fluid that nourishes others in the colony. The research, published in Nature on 30 November, reveals that as pupae—an ...