This week, a new lineage of tropical mammoth has been discovered in Mexico, the latest in the saga of whether the ...

Biologists have long assumed a simple rule: a female produces offspring of her own species. It basically goes without saying; ...

Some ant queens can produce offspring of more than one species – even when the other species is not known to exist in the ...

Bizarrely, Iberian harvester ant queens lay eggs that turn into male builder harvester ants, and some of her offspring are ...

But one Mediterranean ant species takes royal work to the extreme: The worker ants use their mandibles to haul their young queen to faraway nests so she can mate, according to new research.

Female Indian jumping ants that lose their bids for the crown can regrow their brains — a feat that has never been seen before in insects.

Trilobites At Mating Time, These Ants Carry Their Young Queen to a Neighbor’s Nest The royal matchmaking service may help these insects avoid inbreeding.

The team found switching the expression of just a single protein, Kr-h1, in the brains of ants is enough to elevate an ant from worker to queen.

Like most ant colonies, those of Indian jumping ants consist of a queen, males for reproduction and an all-female worker class. The queen holds the most coveted position in the colony.