Ants have been documented to be able to carry up to twenty times their own body weight. If a human could lift twenty times their body weight that would be about 4,000 pounds. Ant biologist Fred ...

Most of us associate ants with productivity. You probably imagine them digging tunnels, laying down pheromone trails, hauling food back to their nest, or, of course, maintaining their characteristic ...

All of the nearly 16,000 species of modern ants share a common extinct ancestor, and a new analysis suggests modern ants once shared the planet with their ancient ant relatives — and that their ...

The survival of an ant colony depends on its members being able to distinguish their own nestmates from ants of a foreign -- and possibly hostile -- colony. This so-called nestmate recognition is ...