Sicily is on the front line of Europe’s fire ant invasion. If it fails to contain the spread, more countries will be at risk.

The exhibit includes a smell-based interactive, highlighting the range of odors ants use to mark trails, raise alarms and ...

"Once you introduce a species to a new place, anything can really happen." Scientists issue stark warning after harmful ...

Almost wherever you go on Earth, you will find ants! The only places that do not have any are Antarctica, Greenland, Iceland, ...

The U.S. Forest Service is giving kids (and adults) the chance to submit name suggestions for a recently discovered species of ant, as an exercise to teach students how new species get their ...

New research is indicating that invasive foreign ants that have hitched rides on global imports are slowly becoming the dominant species in the state of Florida. Populations of non-native leaf-litter ...

Astonished scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of ant after scanning a 20-million-year-old block of amber. Researchers from Germany, France, and Poland made the remarkable find ...

Researchers have uncovered an unusual survival strategy in Iberian harvester ants that turns basic biology on its head: The queens can produce eggs that develop into two different ant species. A team ...

(CNN) — An almost overlooked fossil discovered in a Brazilian museum collection has revealed the oldest ant specimen known to science, according to new research. The prehistoric ant lived among ...

European harvester ant queens, Messor ibericus, produce males belonging to two species, offering remarkable insights into ...