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

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What makes cooperative ants turn aggressive? During spring recess, two UVM researchers travelled to the deserts of Arizona and California to find out.

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

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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 ...

Strange-looking ants being controlled by a fungus have been discovered on Jawoyn country during a Bush Blitz expedition.

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