In the face of environmental challenges, one kind of ant gets better at growing food and an African wasp species may become more cooperative. Armed with headlamps and tweezers, American evolutionary ...

Move over, ant farms — ant hospitals are where the real action is. Scientists studying the behavior of African Matabele ants in Ivory Coast have found that the insects act like paramedics in a crisis, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Shaped like saucers and covered with camouflaging layers of debris, the heads of two 'door head' ant species are found to differentiate them as new taxa. Retrieved from sifted leaf-litter in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hornbill in rarely seen "anting" behavior. Photo: Umkumbe Bush Lodge A guide for a safari lodge in South Africa has captured ...

When building a bird nest in ant territory, the best defense could be an offensive fungus. Swollen-thorn acacia trees are aggressively defended by multiple species of ants. And yet, several species of ...