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Dec 20 • 5 months ago

The evolution of expendability: Why some ants traded armor for numbers

Ants with lots of workers tend to put less energy into making them armored. ...

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Oct 04 • 7 months ago

Scientists revive old Bulgarian recipe to make yogurt with ants

Ants carry lactic and acetic acid bacteria that help coagulate milk, as well as formic acid to acidify it. ...

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Sep 28 • 7 months ago

Fiji’s ants might be the canary in the coal mine for the insect apocalypse

A new genetic technique lets museum samples track population dynamics. ...

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Aug 21 • 9 months ago

Mammals that chose ants and termites as food almost never go back

Ant eating is widely distributed across mammalian lineages. ...

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