The new study also revealed that it took nearly another 40 million years for ants to then develop higher agriculture. The ...

The world's largest passenger plane will start flying regularly from Denver International Airport to Munich, beginning this summer. A new species of ant was found preserved in amber in the Dominican ...

A piece of amber from the early Miocene was discovered in the northern mines of the Santiago Providence of the Dominican Republic and then deposited in a natural history museum, according to a study ...

They are ecologically and economically important. They make a living in various ways in almost every corner of the earth. All of this makes ants fascinating to study. We do research in several areas ...

The research suggests that dirt ants once inhabited the Caribbean islands before vanishing during the Miocene epoch.

An ant preserved in 16 million-year-old amber mastered ... Phil Barden, associate professor of biology at NJIT and senior author of the study, said changing environments likely played a role ...

Housed in hundreds of transparent shoebox-size plastic containers, the ants are part of an ongoing effort to establish a new model system for studying behavioral epigenetics, or what Reinberg, who is ...

NARA--The use of smell could be a key weapon in repelling and controlling invasive ant species from South America, scientists learned. The researchers from Nara Women’s University and other ...

Tanya Latty co-founded and volunteers for conservation organisation Invertebrates Australia, is former president of the Australasian Society for the Study of ... Australia. Ants are among nature ...

To study immune priming in invertebrates, Swiss and Panamanian researchers chose two that have plenty of time to build immunity: Lasius niger (above) and Formica selysi ant queens, which may live ...