Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Giant African harvester ants - seen here in Kenya - are popular with hobby collectors around the world [Dino Martins] The ants are ...

Remember the last time you pooped, stood up, turned around, and carefully took note of your log’s shape and texture?… No? Can’t recall? Well, according to gastroenterologists, you might want to start.

For ants, the ability to instantly distinguish nestmates from outsiders who might hijack the colony is crucial. Now, a new study shows that the system that ants use to determine who belongs in the ...

A project called Antscan has generated high resolution images of thousands of ants, representing over 700 species. To make it happen, researchers brought preserved ants from collections around the ...

Bright Smart shares surged after an Ant Group unit completed regulatory steps for its acquisition. Ant subsidiary Wealthiness and Prosperity finished required China reporting procedures, clearing a ...

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 ...

Forget checking your Oura ring data. If you really want insight into your health, you should check out your poop. Even if you don’t go to the lengths of mailing your excrement to a team of scientists ...

An ant that can turn carbon dioxide in the air into dolomite stone in its exoskeleton may hold clues to how humans can sequester greenhouse gases to avert climate disaster. Fungus-farming ants forage ...

Some butterfly species can’t grow unless they trick ants into taking them home with a complex rhythmic signal. By Rebecca Dzombak Rebecca Dzombak has reported on parasitic ant queens and the number of ...

The city is currently a dog-shit nightmare. There’s no other way to say it. Dog owners seem to have taken January’s snowstorm as carte blanche to violate an already tenuous social contract: They have ...

After a five-year effort, the U.S. Army on Okinawa said it has eradicated an invasive ant species at its port in the island prefecture’s capital city. The browsing ant — Lepisiota frauenfeldi — is ...

Researchers find that fecal transplants may improve age-related gut issues. The study, conducted on mice, has interesting real-world implications. Here, a gastroenterologist explains the findings and ...