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

Ants are everywhere, in forests, deserts, and your backyard, yet few people realize the mind-blowing biology behind how ant colonies work. In this video, we dive deep into the insane biology of ...

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

The ant colony is sometimes referred to as a superorganism—one unified entity composed of many organisms working in concert. Indeed, ants relay information by swapping chemical signals in ways ...

In an ant colony, every ant has their job to do according to their caste. The queens make babies, the soldiers defend the nest, the workers forage for food (or steal it), and some ants ...

In a new paper published this week in Nature, Kronauer and his colleagues report that often-overlooked ant pupae provide a crucial service to the colony: Their developing bodies make a milk-like ...

“We identified a mechanism that unites the colony, binding ants across developmental stages — adults, larvae and pupae — into a coherent entity, the superorganism,” says co-author Orli ...

The ants are biological marvels, living in enormous colonies that function as a single superorganism. They are sophisticated farmers, collecting leaves that they use to nurture sprawling fungal ...

“We identified a mechanism that unites the colony, binding ants across developmental stages—adults, larvae and pupae—into a coherent entity, the superorganism,” says co-author Orli Snir, a ...

Flying ants are an opportunity to see a natural process up close, she said, a "rare part of the lifecycle of a superorganism." Related: Rewind: The bees and butterflies need our help ...

Ant species across five subfamilies exchange milk-like substances. ... the superorganism,” Orli Snir, first author of the study and a biologist at the Rockefeller University, ...