Maintaining 20 million hunters requires a lethal, synchronized strategy for total ecosystem dominance. The Dorylus ants move from one territory to another so they can take advantage of new prey. These ...

BOULDER, Colo. — Ants are on the move, partially due to climate change. That's according to a new study conducted at the University of Colorado Boulder. Researchers there were able to look at data ...

Ant species living in Boulder's foothills have shifted their habitat over the last six decades, potentially affecting local ecosystems, suggests a new study. Over the past 60 years, climate change has ...

The story of how tiny ants managed to push lions to kill more African buffalo shows how the arrival of an invasive species can affect multiple animals that seem to have no connections. At an animal ...

Social insects, which don’t have very large nervous systems, are capable of remarkably sophisticated behavior, such as the direction-giving dance by bees or the lifesaving rafts formed by fire ants.

As individuals, driver ants are small and relatively insignificant creatures. But as a colony, they transform into a huge and ruthless killing machine. Their swarm raids move like a living force ...

A swarm of driver ants© Mehmet Karatay / CC BY-SA 3.0 As individuals, driver ants are small and relatively insignificant creatures. But as a colony, they transform into a huge and ruthless killing ...