In this excerpt from "Rise of the Zombie Bugs" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025), author Mindy Weisberger examines the very grizzly end for worker ants that get zombiefied by the decapitating ...

An ant preserved in 16 million-year-old amber mastered the art of camouflage. A rare 16 million-year-old ant preserved in amber is helping scientists uncover new secrets about one of nature's most ...

Chinese fintech giant Ant Group has rolled out a number of medical artificial intelligence (AI) agents meant to represent well-known local physicians, in a sign of the growing popularity of AI in ...

Tanya Latty co-founded and volunteers for conservation organisation Invertebrates Australia, is former president of the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour and is on the ...

Ant Digital Technologies, the technology arm of Ant Group, has chosen Hong Kong for its international headquarters in a show of commitment to artificial intelligence (AI) and Web3 technologies ...

Ants are among nature's greatest success stories, with an estimated 22,000 species worldwide. Tropical Australia in particular is a global hotspot for ant diversity. Some researchers believe it ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — Two Belgian teenagers were charged Tuesday with wildlife piracy after they were found with thousands of ants packed in test tubes in what Kenyan authorities said was part of a ...

Kenyan authorities, which valued the ants at 1 million shillings ($7,700, €6,819), said the tubes were modified to help the ants survive for up to two months and evade airport security.

The men, including two Belgian teenagers, pleaded guilty to smuggling thousands of live queen ants, which the Kenyan authorities said were destined for markets in Europe and Asia. By Ali Watkins ...

Two Belgian teens pleaded guilty to the illegal possession and trade of wildlife in Kenya after authorities accused them of trying to smuggle over 5,000 ants out of the country to sell as exotic pets.

If you notice a line of extra large ants coming and going in your home, you may have a carpenter ant infestation. These insects may still be relatively small, but they can do major damage to your ...