Just like human societies, ant societies have a division of labor. Within a colony, some individuals feed the young while others are soldiers who protect the colony from intruders. New research across ...

In the spring, ants are once again hard at work. Beyond their everyday presence, ants are also key model organisms in cutting-edge evolutionary genetics research, helping scientists understand how ...

Ant parenting may have evolved from the same brain systems that once controlled hunger. Researchers found that two chemical signals push clonal raider ants toward either caring for larvae or leaving ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A large scale study finds that ant species with thinner, cheaper exoskeletons evolved bigger colonies and higher diversification ...

The trade-off between quality and quantity is a fundamental economic dilemma. Now, a team of British, American, and Japanese researchers describes how it applies to biology, as well. They have ...

A new study published in Nature suggests that evolution did not create entirely new brain circuits for parenting. Instead, it cleverly repurposed ancient neural systems that originally evolved to ...

The findings offer a new way to understand how some ants become total layabouts. Ants are known as hard workers, tirelessly attending to their assigned tasks -- foraging for food, nurturing larvae, ...

In the spring ants are once again hard at work. Beyond their everyday presence, ants are also key model organisms in cutting-edge evolutionary genetics research, helping scientists understand how ...