Long before humans, leaf cutter ants mastered the art of farming. These tiny farmers harvest leaves to grow a fungus that sustains their colonies. Discover how ants invented agriculture 60 million ...

Humans are not the only creatures able to use tools or transmit culture, but we have one trait that makes us different from ...

In fact, ants can be useful scavengers and pollinators. Their tunneling and burrowing activities can aerate and enrich the ...

Caption A leaf-cutter ant worker tends to her fungus garden. These ants grow a fungus, which feeds the entire colony, using leaves that the ants harvest from the surrounding rainforest. This image ...

His favorite were leaf-cutting ants called chicatana ants. “They have a very unique, nutty, smoky kind of flavor—and they’re a little bit woody also,” he tells Newscripts. Liu has since ...

A video of how ants made a bridge over a water body to cross it has gone viral. The video was shared by X (formerly Twitter) ...

Leaf and grass cutter ants, as their names suggest, use leaf and grass cuttings to cultivate a unique fungus within their nest. Each piece is chewed up and mixed with the fungus; the fungus is ...

When Bence first tried to photograph leaf-cutter ants in action, he thought it was going to be easy. It wasn't, but, he researched their complex society and spent hours following them in the Costa ...

Ants are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities—including their legendary communication skills that allow their colonies to function as superorganisms. Invasive ant species are ...

ADAM:'These glass boxes and tubes have been built to replicate the underground tunnels and chambers of an ant colony in the wild and they're full of busy leaf cutter ants. ADAM:'This is the first ...