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The existence of ant colonies was a mystery even to the famous naturalist Charles Darwin. How could evolution produce workers that cannot reproduce? Darwin assumed that workers increase the reproductive success of their queen, ...
Animals were once considered mindless—incapable of thoughts or feelings.
Mellissa Hairston has been living in the Atlanta area for 15 years. But it wasn't until Memorial Day 2024, while soaking up the sun from her Milton home's hot tub, that the mother of four crossed paths with the Asian needle ...
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are helping to protect honey bee populations while developing new strategies for managing fire ant populations. Honey bees are a vital part of pollinating our crops, while fire ...
From the bright lights of cities that don't sleep—where people hustle and bustle through the night to keep subways, servers, and supply chains alive—to the whisper-dark understory of tropical forests where ants hum in syncopated ...
Among the tens of thousands of ant species, incredible "intelligent" behaviors like crop culture, animal husbandry, surgery, "piracy," social distancing, and complex architecture have evolved.
Coordinated behaviors like swarming—from ant colonies to schools of fish—are found everywhere in nature. Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have given a nod to nature ...
The Top End of Australia's Northern Territory contains an extensive, awe-inspiring expanse of tropical savanna landscapes. It includes well-known and much-loved regions such as Darwin, Kakadu National Park, Arnhem Land and ...
Groups of social animals, including humans, can make complex decisions without a single central leader. Those choices aren't always made by the majority, however.
A new study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution has put to the test what happens when dominant ant species vanish from the ecosystem—with worrying results.
