One kind of tiny ant can serve as a monumental example for how to keep members of a community safe from pathogens. A new ...

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Ant colonies are one of the wonders of nature: complex, organised… and mysterious. This programme reveals the secret, underground world of the ant colony, in a way that’s never been seen before. At ...

Video footage from a new series captures thousands of fire ants building a floating raft to save the colony from drowning in a swimming pool. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

For the past several years, a group of researchers has been observing a seemingly impossible wood ant colony living in an abandoned nuclear weapons bunker in Templewo, Poland, near the German border.

Ants make a series of clever architectural adjustments to their nests to prevent the spread of disease, University of Bristol ...