Weaver ants’ feet have an incredibly strong grip—individual members of one species can, without slipping, hold an entire dead bird hanging off the edge of a table. And the mighty insects rarely work ...

Weaver ants work as a team to build bridges and create nests in trees. Nature has once again proven to be an efficient designer, showing time and again how ant teamwork is much better than that of ...

Weaver ants have solved a problem that has plagued human teams for centuries: individuals contribute less to tasks when more people join in. New research published in Current Biology on 12 August ...

Weaver ants are some of the most aggressive ants I've ever worked with, but I felt our giant rainforest double vivarium was ready to host such an arboreal ant species. I was curious to see how the ...

In the tropical forests of Australia and Asia, tiny red ants build vast, hanging homes by stitching leaves together with silk. But scientists have now discovered that these ants, called Oecophylla ...

Imagine this - you're locked in a grueling game of tug-of-war, pulling as hard as you can to keep your team from going down. More people join, and you're pulling with all your strength, or are you?