Ants stick to their tongue, like flies stick to fly paper, but the adaptations don’t stop there. Once swallowed and shunted further along the digestive system, the food arrives in a gizzard-like ...

There’s safety, even power, in numbers. One creature’s confrontation with the world seems insurmountable, almost impossible, but an army of those little creatures can move mountains. And no creature ...

Ant‐eating spiders represent a fascinating model of trophic specialisation and adaptive evolution. These predators exhibit a narrow dietary spectrum (myrmecophagy), targeting specific ant taxa by ...

However, there’s also a flip side. Eight of the 12 myrmecophagous origins are represented by just a single species, meaning most of these lineages could be vulnerable if their insect food sources ...