Humans are not the only animals to have a dedicated health care system. Some super-organized ant species not only recognize that their comrade is injured but actually carry them back to the ant nest ...

The world’s fastest ant can run at almost a metre per second, covering more than 100 times its own body length in that time. The Saharan silver ant (Cataglyphis bombycina) has one of the most extreme ...

Saharan silver ants don’t have the longest limbs. But they make up for it with a sprightly combination of fast pacing, light-footedness, and synchronized stepping that effectively turns their six legs ...

Using a synchrotron powered CT scanner, the Antscan project created an open-source digital library cataloguing thousands of ...

Insects are easy to underestimate. They are small, everywhere, and people swat them as if they were the most insignificant creatures.