A tiny fossil preserved in 16 million-year-old amber revealed an extinct Caribbean species that mastered the art of ...

If you live in a rural or suburban area in the Southern states, you’ve likely seen a fire ant hill a few times in your life.

Photomicrograph of Basiceros enana, a newly discovered extinct dirt ant species preserved in Dominican amber, formed from ...

Narrator: At first glance, a fire ant hill — or mound ... Now, all those baby ants need to live in a narrow temperature range to grow, so that nest sports temperature-controlled rooms.

A large nest can contain up to 20kg of resin. Ants live in colonies which can have populations in their millions. The pressure of feeding so many mouths has made ants the masters of finding food.

is simply this: there are a lot of ants. We live on a planet where ants outnumber us by an almost unimaginable margin. The fact that a few occasionally wander into our homes shouldn't come as a ...

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