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 ...

The study shows that the asteroid impact created favorable conditions for fungi to thrive on decaying plant material, ...

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

One of the most famous examples is the zombie ant fungus, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, which is part of a larger group known ...

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

Humans began to farm about 11,000 years ago, when temperatures around the planet warmed, and people could settle down and ...

In the real world, ants usually come into contact with this fungus when spores – pollen-size reproductive particles that the fungus makes – fall onto the ant from a tree or plant overhead.

Some fungi do threaten human health. Examples include Aspergillus fumigatus and Cryptococcus neoformans, both of which can invade people’s lungs and cause serious pneumonia-like symptoms. Cryptococcus ...

Long before humans started agriculture, ants were cultivating fungi. New research shows ants began farming fungi 66 million ...

We've released 1.5 trillion tons of carbon dioxide into our atmosphere. We may slow our emissions, but the CO2 we've already ...

The black garden queen ant (Lasius niger) ensures colony survival by laying thousands of eggs after a single mating. Her diet ...