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Watch 5,000 fire ants create raft with their bodies to save colony and queen from death by swimming pool
Video footage from a new series captures thousands of ants building a living-raft to save the colony from drowning in a swimming pool.
Soldier ants turned into foragers by scientists reprogramming their brains
Scientists discovered an enzyme within the ant "blood-brain barrier" that helps control whether an ant ends up a soldier or a forager.
World's most painful ant sting targets nerves in the same way scorpion venom does
Bullet and greenhead ants produce toxins they inject with every sting, which prolong nerve signals to the brain and lead to trembling, uncontrollable and long-lasting pain in mammals.
'Supergene' mutation turned ants into parasitic wannabe queens
Scientists have identified a mutant strain of clonal raider ants that look like miniature queens and evolved quickly because of a single "supergene" mutation.
Horrifying close-up photo of an ant is the stuff of nightmares
A zoomed-in photo of an ant is giving the internet the chills.
These ant queens live 500% longer than workers. Now we know why.
Indian jumping ants that become queens can slow their aging.
Trap-jaw ants' lightning-fast bite should rip their heads apart. Here's why it doesn't.
A unique "dual spring" powers the ant's jaws.
Invasive crazy ants are being annihilated by murder fungus. Good.
Crazy ant colonies in North America are being driven to extinction by a fungus that targets the invasive pest species.
