The estimate of 5.5 million species of insects is interesting. What’s even more remarkable is that because scientists have ...

It was the perfect opportunity for the ancestor of a group of ants to start cultivating these microorganisms, according to a study published on October 3 in the journal Science. "The origin of ...

To solve this problem, we had to compare modern-day ants with their ancestors." Since the ant ancestors no longer exist, researchers used statistical approaches to infer what their colony sizes ...

All insects descend from a common ancestor that lived about about 480 ... When people use words like “ant” or “fly” or “butterfly” they are referring not to species, but to categories ...