The rainforests of northern Australia are home to extraordinary ant colonies. Instead of dwelling in underground burrows, ...

Mark Moffett, a research associate at the National Museum of Natural History, specializes in capturing the often-overlooked ...

Weaver ants link their bodies together to form chains while bending leaves to create their elaborate dwellings. Rose Thumboor via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 In the late 19th century, the ...

Ants do not think the way humans do, but dismissing their achievements as simple instinct misses the point. Through pheromones, ants build a shared chemical language that turns individual actions into ...

Scientists at the Weizmann Institute use time-lapse tech and geometry to probe the collective cognitive unit of weaver ants ...