Keeping an ant farm is a fantastic way to observe nature in all her glory. Ants are captivating, busy little creatures and ...

Native to Central and South America, the Bullet ant is infamous for its incredibly painful sting ... making them a particular threat to humans and pets alike. Botflies are known for their gruesome ...

A prehistoric hell ant that lived among dinosaurs 113 million years ago had an unusual way to kill its prey and sheds new ...

The South American bullet ant. (credit: WIKIMEDIA) Its mandibles moved up and down and not side to side, as they do in today's ants. "Currently, many odd mandible shapes can be found in ants ...

Two Belgian teenagers who were found with thousands of ants valued at $9,200 and allegedly destined for European and Asian ...

Pat Stanchev, the general manager of insect-dealing website Best Ants UK, said that it is their "big and beautiful size" that makes them attractive for those who want to keep them as pets.

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 ...

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 ...

The ants are bought by people who keep them as pets and observe them in their colonies. Several websites in Europe have listed different species of ants for sale at varied prices. The 5,400 ants ...

The 5,000 ants were found in a guest house where they were staying, and were packed in 2,244 test tubes that had been filled with cotton wool to enable the ants to survive for months.