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Move over dogs, ants are the new olfactory superheroes. A new study has found that ants can “sniff out” cancer tumors in urine samples. The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, found that ants’ sense of…
Several species of ant have been observed producing a liquid while in a pupal stage that is consumed by ant larvae and adults, and this is likely to occur across all ant species Life 30 November 2022 By Jason Arunn…
An unexpected discovery in a piece of amber stored at Harvard University since the 1930s reveals that army ants once lived in Europe Life 23 November 2022 By Christa Lesté-Lasserre The ancient army ant embedded in amber Christine Sosiak The…
A new study estimates there are 20 quadrillion individual ants across the globe, which together weigh more than all wild birds and mammals combined Life 19 September 2022 By Alice Klein Black worker ants dragging vegetation to the colony corlaffra/Shutterstock…
Ants prefer not to make a collective raft when on water. However, once there are 10 insects near each other, the so-called Cheerios effect pushes them together and is too strong to counteract Life 13 September 2022 By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan…
