Some ants defend their colonies with a tactic so extreme it ends in self-destruction. This video explains how “exploding ants ...

The trade-off between quality and quantity is a fundamental economic dilemma. Now, a team of British, American, and Japanese researchers describes how it applies to biology, as well. They have ...

Research shows that some ant species have learned how to treat their wounds, revealing one of the clearest examples of medical behavior outside humans. Medicine has been considered a uniquely human ...

A sneaky, stealthy parasite queen can turn an ant colony against itself. Newly-mated queens of two parasitic ant species have been found to sneak into an ant colony, creep towards the resident ant ...

Fifty-five years ago, a dead sperm whale washed ashore near Florence — and what happened next became one of the most infamous moments in state history. Engineers from the Oregon Highway Division, ...

Weaver ants’ feet have an incredibly strong grip—individual members of one species can, without slipping, hold an entire dead bird hanging off the edge of a table. And the mighty insects rarely work ...

Weaver ants link their bodies together to form chains while bending leaves to create their elaborate dwellings. Rose Thumboor via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 In the late 19th century, the ...

A chain of weaver ants can easily outpull just about any other creature, pound for pound, making them one of the most formidable teams in the animal kingdom. Weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina), which ...

Exploding Kittens has officially launched a new board game, the company's first board game, as Exploding Kittens: The Board Game has been released for their namesake game's tenth anniversary. This is ...

In 1985, the idea of mashing buttons next to your friend while two digital characters pummeled each other wasn’t exactly commonplace. While 1976’s arcade game Heavyweight Champ and 1984’s Karate Champ ...

Ants, ants and more ants! Small black ants scurry hither and thither. Rarely do I see more than two or three of these little fellas at the same time. They may be on the window sill, on the kitchen ...

Exploding Kittens, designed by Matthew Inman, Elan Lee and Shane Small, was releasted 10 years ago after a massive Kickstarter. One of the biggest successes on Kickstarter is a silly little card game ...