Ants coordinate highly complex foraging and traffic systems without any leaders, relying entirely on local interactions and chemical cues. Pheromone trails encode information about distance, food ...

In the tropical forests of Australia and Asia, tiny red ants build vast, hanging homes by stitching leaves together with silk. But scientists have now discovered that these ants, called Oecophylla ...

How thousands of tiny brains, obeying simple rules, solve problems no individual can understand. Ant bridges, bee hives and bird flocks all show how intelligent behavior can emerge to solve impossible ...

Tanya Latty co-founded and volunteers for conservation organisation Invertebrates Australia, is former president of the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour and is on the education ...

A team of researchers led by Auburn University Assistant Professor Clint Penick studied ants like these, which are easily found in the Southeastern United States. Auburn University Assistant Professor ...

Ants have evolved an acute sense of smell, which requires each sensory neuron to choose one scent receptor out of hundreds. In a new study published in Nature, researchers at New York University have ...

If you saw this circular raft floating down a river you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a discarded deep-dish ...