Ants

Rural ants can live in supercolonies with more than 6 million worker ants and 50,000 queent ants.

Biologist John Longino and his group study ant biodiversity in Central America

Some 20,000 ant species crawl the world. Here are but a few, from photographer and entomologist Alex Wild.

Longer-limbed lizards can make a quicker escape from pesky fire ants.

Ants in inland, salt-poor areas seek salt over sugar sources.

Biologists find new blind, subterranean ant species in Amazon rainforest.

An ant's fate, like a person's, is determined by both nature and nurture, it turns out.

Parasite turns ants red like berries so birds eat them, spread disease.

Better dancers are better at hustling chow.

Versatile diet of Argentine ants helps them thrive, spread in new environment.