Scientists don't know why the ant is covered in doorknob-like lumps. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Every queen needs a crown.

Experts discovered an unusual form of regicide in which a parasitic ant queen tricks workers in a colony into turning on their own mother. By Rebecca Dzombak Rebecca Dzombak previously reported on ...

Researchers have uncovered an unusual survival strategy in Iberian harvester ants that turns basic biology on its head: The queens can produce eggs that develop into two different ant species. A team ...

All ants came from one mother. When the queen lays eggs, her daughters, the worker ants, care for them with utmost devotion and pass down the same genes to the next generation. When a parasitic ant ...

The biological sex of an ant is determined by whether an individual ant is haploid or diploid. In other words, it depends on whether they have one set or two sets of chromosomes in the nuclei of their ...