A piece of amber from the early Miocene was discovered in the northern mines of the Santiago Providence of the Dominican Republic and then deposited in a natural history museum, according to a study ...

The research suggests that dirt ants once inhabited the Caribbean islands before vanishing during the Miocene epoch.

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Kronstad and his colleagues, in a recent review published in Nature, warned that this evolution could lead to more human ...

What if we told you the zombie apocalypse - at least for ants - is already real? In this video, we explore the real-life ...

Mindy Weisberger’s book, Rise of the Zombie Bugs, explores the sophisticated—and macabre—relationships between zombifying ...

Science writer Mindy Weisberger speaks to Live Science about the parasites that turn their hosts — whether ant, beetle or ...

"Once the egg hatches, the ant has only a few weeks of life before it succumbs to the manipulations of its attacker, stumbling away from its home and family and then undergoing decapitation from the ...