Experts discovered an unusual form of regicide in which a parasitic ant queen tricks workers in a colony into turning on ...

Starting a colony is a dangerous enterprise - so some ants find creative and brutal techniques to take over other queens’ ...

Scientists newly described how a parasitic ant queen infiltrates another ant species’ colony and tricks the workers into killing their mother.

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

In a stunning discovery, European ant queens display extraordinary reproductive strategy. Messor ibericus queens can produce males belonging to two species. This remarkable finding was recently ...

The biological sex of an ant is determined by whether an individual ant is haploid or diploid. In other words, it depends on whether they have one set or two sets of chromosomes in the nuclei of their ...

In a forest floor coup that sounds almost fictional, a newly described parasitic ant has evolved a way to make loyal workers turn on their own mother and clear the throne for an invader. The discovery ...

Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world responded with public health measures, including nationwide lockdowns, social distancing measures, and travel restrictions. The idea was that ...

A 25-year-old woman in Sangareddy district allegedly died by suicide due to a severe childhood fear of ants. She reportedly took the extreme step after noticing ants while cleaning her home. Her ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

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 ...