Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One Iberian harvester ant queen gave birth to two different species: an Iberian harvester male (left) and a Messor structor male. ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — Two Belgian teens who pleaded guilty after they were found with thousands of ants valued at $9,200 that were allegedly headed for European and Asian markets will be sentenced in two ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

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Paleontologists owe a special debt to harvester ants. While crazy ants and the more familiar red fire ants get most of the attention for their impacts on local ecology, those invasive insects have ...

Researchers have uncovered an unusual survival strategy in Iberian harvester ants that turns basic biology on its head: The queens can produce eggs that develop into two different ant species. A team ...