Entomologist Jessica Purcell calls the learned behavior “a new height of exploitation” Getty Parasitic queen ants infiltrate rival ant colonies and trigger workers to kill their own queen The takeover ...

International streamer, production studio, and rights-management business, Blue Ant Media, is making a major play in the kids’, family, and animation space with its agreement to acquire Thunderbird ...

A South Carolina woman, 20, allegedly took medicine to purposefully end her pregnancy at 27 weeks. The newborn survived, and she’s been charged. The Rock Hill Police Department began investigating ...

Move over, Game of Thrones—ants can turn armies against their leaders and use subterfuge to take over entire kingdoms, too. This chilling discovery did not originate with a professional scientist, but ...

Queens of some ant species have evolved an unusually hostile mode for colony takeover: they infiltrate colonies of other ant species and manipulate the worker ants into killing their own queen — their ...

Scientists say they have for the first time unlocked how a parasitic ant uses chemical warfare to take over the nest of a different species, by tricking workers into an unlikely assassination.The ...