Ecosystems can temporarily bounce back when common ant species disappear. Other species may step in to perform similar roles.

A new study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution has put to the test what happens when dominant ant species vanish from ...

These ants are parasitised, possessed and eventually consumed from within by a fungus – possibly a species not yet recorded by modern science. Dr François Brassard, a myrmecologist and postdoc with ...

Two nests of highly invasive red imported fire ants have been detected and destroyed outside of official biosecurity zones in ...

It also offers some insight into unusual features in ant species of this period that didn’t survive the mass extinction that ended the dinosaur era, the researchers said. Today, ants are one of ...

Two invasive fire ant nests are found and destroyed at Palmview, on the Sunshine Coast, where locals are concerned for the ...

“Our team has discovered a new fossil ant species representing the earliest undisputable geological record of ants,” Anderson Lepeco, a study co-author and paleontologist from the Museu de ...