To thrive, ant colonies rely on everyone pulling their weight. For raider ants, this means diligent scouts track down other nests, then direct hundreds of savage foragers to attack. They return with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two winged clonal raider ants stand out against a white background. Two winged clonal raider ants stand out against a white ...

If John Boehner feels like renting a movie this holiday weekend, I suggest he steer clear of the 1954 sci-fi horror flick "Them!" In it, nuclear testing in the New Mexico desert creates a marauding ...

The findings offer a new way to understand how some ants become total layabouts. Ants are known as hard workers, tirelessly attending to their assigned tasks -- foraging for food, nurturing larvae, ...

Scientists isolated a “supergene” that seems to transform raider ants into freeloaders with attributes similar to queens found in other species. By Rebecca Dzombak To thrive, ant colonies rely on ...