2025 • Dec 20
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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2025 • Oct 04
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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2025 • Sep 28
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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2025 • Aug 21
Mammals that chose ants and termites as food almost never go back
Ant eating is widely distributed across mammalian lineages. ...
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