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Paleontologists owe a special debt to harvester ants. While crazy ants and the more familiar red fire ants get most of the attention for their impacts on local ecology, those invasive insects have ...

Harvester ants in Nebraska unearthed thousands of fossilized teeth and jaw bones, leading scientists to the discovery of 10 new species. By Annie Roth A small group of paleontologists recently ...

Court cases in Kenya point to a growing market for ants as exotic pets in Asia and Europe that has implications for conservation and biosecurity In the biblical text Book of Proverbs, King Solomon ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

The trade came to light in Kenya last year when two Belgian teenagers were arrested in possession of nearly 5,000 queen ants and accused of 'biopiracy' Kenyan ant expert Dino Martins gushes over the ...

The post How One Ant Queen Clones Males of a Completely Different Species appeared first on A-Z Animals. The whole point of reproduction is that you produce more of your own species, right? Well, not ...

They’ve cracked it. Small ants carry home large seeds to eat all the time, but no one knew exactly how they managed to break through the seeds’ tough exterior. It turns out that Florida harvester ants ...