Footage shows dozens of ants taking flight in the UK on June 29. Here’s all you need to know on Flying Ant Day, including why ...

Flying Ant Day, also known as "nuptial flight" often mistaken for a single occasion, marks a season of significant activity ...

The American Museum of Natural History is unveiling an enormous new exhibit of leafcutter ants. Making it happen was no picnic. A leafcutter ant carrying a flower petal inside a new exhibit in the ...

Do ants poop? Discover how these social insects have developed ingenious methods to manage their waste.

Venomous Asian needle ants are spreading in the US. They're already in Mississippi. The sting hurts more than fire ants, can kill. What you need to know ...

Ants took up farming some 50 million years ago, according to U.S. researchers who traced the ancestry of farmer ants.

The discovery upends previous assumptions about ant evolution, as the oldest known specimens were previously found in France and Burma preserved in amber. Finding a hell ant in Brazil demonstrates ...

Dubbed one of the 'most destructive invasive species' they have been seen in UK and have habits making them easy to spot ...

Life in a Florida carpenter ant (Camponotus floridanus) colony can be dangerous, particularly if other colonies are located nearby.It’s not uncommon for neighboring ants to wage war upon each ...

And the history this study reveals suggests that the cooperation between ants and their crops began after the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs, when little beyond fungi could thrive ...

Scientists in Brazil found a very old ant fossil. This fossil is 113 million years old. It is of a 'hell ant,' a type of predator. The discovery changes what we know about ant history. Ants were ...