After their queen dies, Indian jumping ant workers brawl for a month to find a new leader. Researchers say they can predict who'll win by day three.

Harvard researcher tracks globally invasive ant population to Bangladesh.

The spread of tawny crazy ants may be driven, in part, by their need for calcium.

For some sand-dwelling plants, stickiness is a defense tactic that keeps predators at bay.

Ants have been farmers for tens of millions of years and have even solved a problem we haven't. They know how to cultivate climate-resilient crops.

New insights into how ants and bacteria became a single organism may lead to a better understanding of the origin of complex organisms, researchers report.

A new study of big-headed turtle ands shows "the space that evolution has to play with is actually quite a bit larger than previously thought."

When an intruding ant enters a colony, ants don't jump to action to defend their home right away. The right smell has to "unlock" their aggression.

"The same equations that Turing used for chemistry, we can use in ecology." Here's how they apply to the complex ecosystems on coffee farms.