Tiny ants could affect carbon storage in the soil and alter the global climate balance, according to scientists.

There’s safety, even power, in numbers. One creature’s confrontation with the world seems insurmountable, almost impossible, but an army of those little creatures can move mountains. And no creature ...

Celebrate Thanksgiving with some of the animal kingdom’s greatest cooks, including marshmallow-roasting apes and salt-sprinkling monkeys Jack Tamisiea In the tropical forests of Central and South ...

A swarm of driver ants© Mehmet Karatay / CC BY-SA 3.0 As individuals, driver ants are small and relatively insignificant creatures. But as a colony, they transform into a huge and ruthless killing ...

An inconspicuous creature is invading certain portions of the United States and has begun to attract interest from experts ...

Scientists discovered a new species of “slender” animal “wildly” flailing in ant colony by an airport in Timor-Leste, the study said. Photo from Mark O'Shea Scientists surveying the southeastern Asian ...

Across the western United States, the industrious insects known as harvester ants are often cast as pests. These ants gather seeds and live in large sediment mounds, and they can deliver nasty stings ...