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Adding to his charm, Gandalf the Grey delivered many memorable lines across both The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit ...
He’s ancient, slow-talking, and leads the tree-folk of Fangorn. When he’s mad, he and his Ents wreck Isengard, tearing Saruman’s walls apart like twigs. He’s been around forever, a living piece of ...
In this excerpt from "Rise of the Zombie Bugs" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025), author Mindy Weisberger examines the very grizzly end for worker ants that get zombiefied by the decapitating ...
The men, including two Belgian teenagers, pleaded guilty to smuggling thousands of live queen ants, which the Kenyan authorities said were destined for markets in Europe and Asia. By Ali Watkins ...
As the warmer weather brings people outdoors across Houston, fire ants are waiting. Out of the 210 species of ants in Texas, the fire ant is the one singled out as a serious nuisance to humans ...
Kenyan authorities, which valued the ants at 1 million shillings ($7,700, €6,819), said the tubes were modified to help the ants survive for up to two months and evade airport security.
In Kenya, two Belgian teenagers and two others face charges for smuggling thousands of ants, highlighting a disturbing shift in wildlife trafficking. Authorities discovered the Messor Cephalotes ...
Tanya Latty co-founded and volunteers for conservation organisation Invertebrates Australia, is former president of the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour and is on the ...