A study investigates the evolution of beneficial bacteria that live inside and on the surface of farming ants. Attine ants ...

Scientists have found that after the asteroid wiped out many plants, ants started farming fungi to help them survive and get ...

Ants began farming fungi 66 million years ago post-asteroid impact, with leafcutter ants evolving advanced agricultural ...

Research highlights how the meteor impact that ended the dinosaurs helped spawn the mutualistic relationship between ants and ...

Fungus-farming ants cultivate multiple species of fungi for food, but the history of fungus-ant co-evolution is poorly known. In a new study published this week in the journal Science, researchers ...

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 ...

But other ant species cooperate with fungi—in some cases strains of fungus that are also found growing in their environment. Genetic studies have shown that these symbiotic relationships are ...