The Christmas Island pipistrelle, a tiny insect-eating bat found nowhere else on Earth, has suffered a population collapse so ...

Yellow crazy ants break the rules of reproduction. Every male ant contains separate populations of cells from two distinct genetic lineages, making them “chimeras,” researchers report in the April 7 ...

Yellow crazy ants (Anoplolepis gracilipes) are, to put it simply, one of the more well known aggressive 'jerks' of the ant world. And that's saying a lot for any of the countless number of invasive ...

The yellow crazy ant (Anoplolepis gracilipes) ranks among the world's 100 worst animal pests because of its impacts on agriculture and biodiversity. The red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta) ...

Researchers just discovered a method of animal reproduction previously unknown to science, reporting that a biological law is being "broken" by a species of ant. The yellow crazy ant, according to a ...

The yellow crazy ant, or Anoplolepis gracilipes, has the infamous distinction of being among the worst invasive species in the world. However, this is not the reason for which this particular ant is ...

Scientists have discovered that in male yellow crazy ants, different cells carry one of two sets of DNA. While this species is known for its powerful invasive abilities, this research has shown that ...

A small international team of molecular and evolutionary scientists has discovered that male yellow crazy ants (also known as long-legged ants) have two sets of DNA throughout their bodies. In their ...

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There are 20 quadrillion ants on Earth —that’s 2.5 million ants for every human. Known ant species (members of the family ...