John Oliver has apparently never been especially comfortable with the tasteful side of Emmy campaigning. On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, he found a workaround: guns, snakes, tentacles, blood, an ...

A Colobopsis cf. explodens (Exploding Ant) crawling on tree bark in the rainforest of Sumatra, Indonesia. Known for its self-destructive defense mechanism.© MDong_97/Shutterstock.com Ants are ...

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

The Asian needle ant is found in at least 20 states DiegoH/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain An invasive species of ant with a potentially deadly sting is raising concern in America The Asian needle ant ...

A unique “choreography” between two ant species suggests a distinctive partnership in which one provides a carwash service to the other. By Alexa Robles-Gil One June morning 20 years ago, Mark Moffett ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) -On the heels of the Asian lantern fly exploding in population in Ohio, researchers are now keeping an eye out for the Asian needle ant. According to staff with the Ohio State ...

Have you ever been drifting off to sleep when suddenly you hear what sounds like a gunshot, a door slamming, or an explosion inside your head? You jolt awake, heart pounding, sit upright in bed, but ...

A project called Antscan has generated high resolution images of thousands of ants, representing over 700 species. To make it happen, researchers brought preserved ants from collections around the ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Super Ant Art Tycoon You’re an art dealer with nothing but ants. They paint. You set the prices. Sometimes it sells, sometimes it doesn’t. Grow your colony, ...

The exploding ant, known scientifically as Colobopsis explodens, has one of the most extreme defense mechanisms in the animal kingdom. When threatened, certain worker ants rupture their own bodies, ...

A rare Japanese ant is the only species known to lack female workers and males; all of its young develop into parasitic queens that try to take over other colonies. A rare ant species in Japan has no ...