The unusual life cycle of ants reflects their social behavior, with some individuals foregoing reproduction to tend to the ...

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide.

While ant queen violence is well-known, scientists recently documented the first evidence of parasite-induced matricide ...

The massive Olympus Mons volcano on Mars—one of the solar system’s highest peaks—may have towered above a Martian ocean in the distant past, a new study suggests. The research identifies an escarpment ...