Mammals have developed some unusual eating habits over the past 100 million years, but a new study has uncovered the ...

Some mammals evolved to eat only ants and termites. It happened at least twelve times. These animals developed special ...

Dinosaurs certainly didn’t benefit from the Chicxulub asteroid impact, but that was a wholly different story for the ancestors of today’s ants.In fact, the climatic upheaval that rocked Earth ...

If you want to get by in this world, you could do a lot worse than developing a predilection for ants. In fact, ant-eating ...

The ants and fungi help each other, but they might be able to help human farmers, too. “Humans have been practicing agriculture for 12,000 years,” Schultz said. “Ants, for 66 million years.” ...

Some 66 million years ago, the catastrophic event that wiped out the dinosaurs sparked the beginning of a unique relationship between fungi and ants. The aftermath of a meteor impact darkened the ...

The ants and fungi help each other, but they might be able to help human farmers, too. “Humans have been practicing agriculture for 12,000 years,” Schultz said. “Ants, for 66 million years.” ...

You have probably seen leaf-cutter ants carrying bits of plants, maybe in a nature documentary, at a science museum or in the “Circle of Life” song at the beginning of the 1994 Disney animated film ...

By Kate Golembiewski, CNN (CNN) — You have probably seen leaf-cutter ants carrying bits of plants, maybe in a nature documentary, at a science museum or in the “Circle of Life” song at the ...

Ants began farming fungi 66 million years ago after an asteroid hit Earth, according to a new study. Here the queen and workers of the leaf-cutter ant species Atta cephalotes tend to a fungus garden.

(CNN) — You have probably seen leaf-cutter ants carrying bits of plants, maybe in a nature documentary, at a science museum or in the “Circle of Life” song at the beginning of the 1994 ...