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

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 ...

Evolution is an incredible process that has filled our world with a richly diverse set of species. In this sense, it is a ...

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

Environment Agriculture The dinosaur-killing asteroid turned ants into farmers The insects grew fungi crops millions of years before humans even existed. Andrew Paul Oct 7, 2024 3:30 PM EDT ...

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.” ...

It’s unclear precisely how the fungus takes control of the ant’s behavior, but the high ground gives it a better stage for the grand finale. In the end, a stalk erupts from the ant’s head ...

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.

Researchers have now used DNA analysis to uncover just how long ants have been farming fungi, now described in a study published Thursday in the journal Science. It turns out these insects have been ...

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.