CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 4, 2009 -- Colonies of army ants, whose long columns and marauding habits are the stuff of natural-history legend, are usually antagonistic to each other, attacking soldiers ...

Army ants form some of the largest insect societies on the planet. They are quite famous in popular culture, most notably from a terrifying scene in Indiana Jones. But they are also ecologically ...

(Washington, D.C.) What if a small army of forward operating robots were able to detect an upcoming river gap and then .. without requiring human intervention — autonomously mesh together into a ...

The success of a colony of ants is one big exercise in collaboration, with the insects known to share all manner of responsibilities, from forming conveyor belts for food transport to construction of ...

Brains and brawn apparently don’t mix in army ant soldiers, a new study shows. Why that occurs might have to do with how much energy it takes to develop and power brain tissue, according to O’Donnell ...

Ant societies rely on precise recognition systems to maintain cooperation, but new research reveals that these systems are ...

Studying army ants for a living comes with certain occupational hazards. "They're very aggressive," says Isabella Muratore at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. "They have venom, so they will ...

Army ants, the nomadic swarming predators underfoot in the jungle, can take down a colony of prey animals without breaking a sweat. But certain army ant species can’t take the heat. According to a new ...

Direct species interactions are the main connectors between species in a community, but their effects on the species involved are not always obvious. In this figure set, students use a study by Wrege ...