Explosions are messy at the best of times, but when the thing exploding is an animal, or part of an animal, it rarely ends ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Empires of the Undergrowth: Exploding Ants Empires of the Undergrowth: Exploding Ants is a downloadable expansion for Empires of the Undergrowth that ...

Firefighters have been working through the weekend to cool a chemical tank “literally on the edge” of exploding in Southern California as they worked to avert a disastrous “worst-case” scenario, the ...

Ants are supremely social animals. They have an extraordinary ability to organize themselves and an inherent drive to prioritize the needs of their colony over their own. Some ants have taken this to ...

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Asian needle ants are an invasive species from East Asia that have been spreading across the southeastern United States. Their venomous sting can cause intense pain and, in some cases, ...

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Entomologist Mark Moffett photographed cone ants climbing onto and cleaning harvester ants. Mark Moffett, Minden Pictures Twenty years ago, entomologist Mark Moffett was in southeastern Arizona when ...

In the Arizona desert, scientists have uncovered a bizarre and almost unbelievable partnership between ants: tiny cone ants acting as “cleaners” for much larger harvester ants. Instead of attacking, ...

In the deserts of southeastern Arizona, harvester ants congregate with serrated jaws agape outside the nests of much smaller cone ants. However, the nests’ inhabitants are not threatened. Instead, ...