Greater short-horned lizards shoot blood from their eyes — proving you really are what you eat, in the grossest way possible.

Over the past few decades, the Asian needle ants have spread to more than 20 states since their first appearance in Georgia ...

“ These ants are everywhere ,” Tyler Newman, communications manager for Wendell, said Sunday, March 29 in a video posted to ...

The rainforests of northern Australia are home to extraordinary ant colonies. Instead of dwelling in underground burrows, these ants inhabit canopies of trees, dozens of meters above the ground, ...

Ants have a remarkable defense against disease. Infected pupae change their scent, alerting worker ants. These ants then ...

The Antscan database captures the tiny insects’ diversity and shows how the world’s living things could be rendered in three dimensions. By Ari Daniel Ari Daniel previously reported on a tropical ...

Ants are among the most dynamic of the “little things that run the world,” as the late biologist E. O. Wilson described insects. They build complex communities, travel widely and are ubiquitous. There ...

Researchers at Goethe University Frankfurt have discovered a surprising role for formic acid in the human gut: The small molecule acts as a kind of “taxi” for electrons – both within bacteria and, ...

There are some pretty strange ways that animals clean themselves. While cats groom themselves with their tongues, other animals like hippos rely on fish to keep them clean. But what about birds?

Common air pollutants like ozone and nitric oxide can change the way ants smell, prompting their nest-mates to attack them as if they were intruders. Ants recognise their comrades by scent, and when ...

Scientists have created a device that captures carbon dioxide and transforms it into a useful chemical in a single step. The new electrode works with realistic exhaust gases rather than requiring ...