ants

For desert ants, Earth’s magnetic field isn’t just a compass: It may also sculpt their brains. Stepping outside their nest…

They are only a few centimeters tall and their brains have a comparatively simple structure with less than one million…

In the middle of an April night in Israel’s Jordan Valley, Yoram Zvik sweeps a UV light over the dark…

Lions, elephants, zebras, buffalo, ants, and trees are all locked in an intricate ecological web in one Kenyan nature preserve.…

Fire ants work together to form a floating raft when their nest is flooded Jennifer White Maxwell/Shutterstock Fire ants can…

In order to eat, Matabele ants have to fight with their one and only food source: termites. These pre-meal encounters…

Silky ants seem to seek out nutritional remedies when they are ill YongXin Zhang / Alamy Some ants treat their…