For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide.

The Santa Barbara Channel is a hotbed of biodiversity, thanks to the many species whose ranges meet and overlap in the area.

During the original queen’s downfall, the parasitic ant will even retreat and hide as the workers kill their leader. In some ...

The sight of flames tearing across Tongariro National Park last week was heartbreaking for lovers of the landscape. It was ...

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.

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By Marlowe Starling In the foothills of the western Alps in southeastern France, horned alpine ibex roam the limestone cliffs ...