Some ants kill the queens of another species and take over their colonies, but we now know at least one species gets workers ...

Scientists newly described how a parasitic ant queen infiltrates another ant species’ colony and tricks the workers into killing their mother.

Experts discovered an unusual form of regicide in which a parasitic ant queen tricks workers in a colony into turning on their own mother.

A long-term deep-sea experiment revealed that a crucial species failed to appear where it should have thrived. In many horror films, the most unsettling moments come from creatures that can't always ...

Researchers from around the world have made a very cool toad-related discovery. They identified three previously unknown ...

Researchers have sequenced the oldest RNA ever recovered, taken from a woolly mammoth frozen for nearly 40,000 years. The RNA ...

Carnivore keepers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in Front Royal, Virginia, are ...

Spider may elicit a “yuck” or an “ew” from many, but the true nature of these oft-feared critters is not as icky as one might ...

Scientists were stunned to find two different spider species peacefully cohabiting in massive 1,140-square-foot web.

The results of the new study, published last month in the journal Subterranean Biology, spread rapidly online due to the ...

Biological communities are rarely stable. Their composition is constantly changing, depending on the environmental conditions ...