Trap-jaw ants, with their spring-loaded jaws and powerful stings, are among the fiercest insect predators, but they begin their lives as spiny ... to developing into a queen," says Adrian Smith ...

The second instar, or developmental phase of trap-jaw ants involves lots of weird protuberances and spiny hairs ... such as worker or queen. At the end of the third instar, or stage, of larval ...

Spiny lobsters, for example — and really ... so they don't risk infecting the queen ant and her nurses. Reproduction can safely proceed. I found mandrills, with their vividly colored ...

Several of the katydids and at least one of the ants found also represent new genera, the researchers said. Only two individuals of the spiny, tree-dwelling ant were found, at an elevation of ...

Discovered by the CSIRO's Dr Ben Hoffman at Rio Tinto's mining lease near Nhulunbuy, the new ant has been named the Kohout's spiny ant and belongs to the Polyrhachis genus meaning "many spines".