Imagine trying to build a house without a blueprint, find a shortcut through an unfamiliar city without a map, or govern a large organization with no leaders and no meetings. It sounds impossible. Yet ...

There are 20 quadrillion ants on Earth —that’s 2.5 million ants for every human. Known ant species (members of the family ...

A dead ant can be detected and removed from the nest within an hour, long before any rotting smell develops. The chemical system ants use to spot a corpse turns out to work in a way scientists never ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Red imported fire ants – known as RIFA – are spreading throughout the southern U.S., and if there are enough nests in an area, ...

As the West Midlands experiences a period of hot weather, we take a look at when flying ants appear and why they swarm.