After a recent period of major rainfall, I visited a wooded area to see what animals I could find, wondering if any had left for Noah’s Ark. I turned over an old piece of roofing tin and noticed that ...

When this tree is down in the trenches of a dry season and battling pesky leaf-eaters, it calls upon its trusty allies: ants. Ecuador laurel trees will produce an extra dose of sweet, sticky sap to ...

In the complex world of ant-plant partnerships, serial monogamy can help trees maximize their evolutionary fitness, a new University of Florida study shows. Trees that sequentially partner with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Discovering a line of ants brazenly wandering across your kitchen counters is not exactly a pleasant occurrence, and neither is ...

When water is scarce, Ecuador laurel trees ramp up their investment in a syrupy treat that sends resident ant defenders into overdrive, protecting the trees from defoliation by leaf-munching pests.

Carpenter ants often get the blame when a tree dies and thousands of the little scurriers are found running in and out the crime scene. The truth is they didn’t do it. The ants were just taking ...

Anyone who has spent time in the tropics knows that the diversity of species found there is astounding and the abundance and diversity of ants, in particular, is unparalleled. Scientists have grappled ...

Ant colony nests are known for their impenetrability. These highly organized insect societies will soon detect an intruder’s ...

Ants in your pants? That's nothing compared with ants up your snout. And that's what elephants in the African savanna must contend with when trying to snag a meal from a certain type of acacia tree.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American It's a David versus Goliath kind of story, ...

Campers know the pesky feeling of ants crawling up and down their arms and legs. For elephants in Kenya’s central highlands, the sensation is disturbing enough to keep them far away from a variety of ...

Ants in your pants? That's nothing compared with ants up your snout. And that's what elephants in the African savanna must contend with when trying to snag a meal from a certain type of acacia tree.