The scarlet velvet ant is very well known for its extremely painful sting. Less well known is that the velvet ant is not actually an ant at all—it is a type of wingless parasitic wasp. The ...

Ants owe much of their success to their highly social nature. Within the colony, some individuals (female queens and male drones) are responsible for reproduction, while others (workers ...

At more than 110 million years old, a fossil excavated in Brazil is the oldest undisputed ant fossil ever discovered. The finding adds to evidence that the first ants evolved on the supercontinent ...

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds a report published in Current Biology.The hell ant, which was ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. While there could be thousands of billions of ants crawling around the Earth today, few match the fiercity of the extinct “hell ...

Found in Madagascar, the male velvet asity has deep black feathers and bright green wattles during the breeding season. A rare, all-black version of the peacock, it retains the peacock’s ...

An “all-male final” in a “women’s pool championship”? That’s just “what the endgame of trans ideology looks like,” scoffs Lauren Smith at Spiked. “The UK’s Ultimate Pool Women ...

Dan Burn and Alexander Isak were the goalscoring heroes on a historic afternoon that has continued their rise since being taken over in October 2021. Newcastle swiftly announced their celebration ...

Although they look prehistoric and somewhat dangerous, they are completely harmless to humans. Ants and other small insects constitute the primary prey of horned lizards. Touches of irony ...