Picture an anthill. What do you see? A small mound of sand and crumbly dirt poking up through the lawn? A tiny hole disappearing into the ground? A few ants scrambling around busily. Not very ...

A close-up time-lapse of ants digging and building tunnels in the sand. An AI deepfake was final straw for a Washington state ...

The threat of death is no obstacle for some hungry fire ants. To escape drowning while feeding on sugary water, black imported fire ants built syphons out of sand that moved the water to a safer spot.

Ants are prodigious diggers, constructing elaborate nests with multiple layers connected by an intricate network of tunnels, sometimes reaching depths of 25 feet. Now, a team of scientists from ...

Ants are renowned for their industriousness. Ask the grasshopper in the story by Aesop. He had to come begging the hardworking ant for food when winter came because he had frittered away his summer.

Trap-jaw ants snap their mandibles shut with one of the fastest movements in the animal world. Using a spring-loaded mechanism, they can bring their jaws together at up to 60m/s. That's fast enough to ...

It's fun to take your kids to the beach, but keep an eye out for deep holes that could bury them. Juan Silva/Photodisc via Getty Images While millions of Americans vacation on beaches every year to ...

This story from The Conversation is by Stephen P. Leatherman, Professor of Coastal Science at Florida International University. While millions of Americans vacation on beaches every year to seek out ...

Ants make a series of clever architectural adjustments to their nests to prevent the spread of disease, University of Bristol research has uncovered. Study lead author Luke Leckie, a PhD researcher in ...