New research shows that ants have been farming fungi for 66 million years — thanks in part to the asteroid that fueled the ...

Carpenter ants are omnivores that eat both plant and animal foods. If they find their way into your home, carpenter ants will also eat sweets, meat, eggs, and animal fat. Because dead insects are a ...

Many species of animal eat their own young in certain circumstances. However, scientists report that queen black garden ants (Lasius niger) eat offspring in a seemingly unappetizing state ...

Dinosaurs certainly didn’t benefit from the Chicxulub asteroid impact, but that was a wholly different story for the ...

Fungi are a kingdom of life more closely related to animals than to plants ... fungi bits of leaves and in turn eating the tips of the fungal webs. “Ants practice agriculture just like humans ...