In a discovery that sounds almost like science fiction, scientists have found that queen ants of the Iberian harvester species (Messor ibericus) can produce offspring not just of their own kind but ...

A bad day and a dead end for a Cretaceous ant has parlayed into some pretty spectacular science some 113 million years later. The tiny insect, fossilized in a chunk of limestone in Brazil, is the ...

The ever-expanding problem of plastic pollution has taken a surprising turn as scientists unveil a previously unnoticed interaction between plastics and terrestrial insects. In this recent discovery, ...