Meet the largest ant in the world: The giant Dinoponera, a powerful predator of the rainforest

Discover the Dinoponera, Earth's largest ant, reaching up to 4 cm! These South American giants boast a unique queenless ...
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These Are the Biggest Ants in the World

Almost wherever you go on Earth, you will find ants! The only places that do not have any are Antarctica, Greenland, Iceland, and some island nations. Not only are they widespread, but there are also ...
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A Closer Look at How Ant Colonies Raise the Next Generation

The unusual life cycle of ants reflects their social behavior, with some individuals foregoing reproduction to tend to the ...

Watch an invading queen ant trick workers into killing their mother

A new study published in Current Biology documented the queen of an ant species dethroning the queen of another species using ...
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Why some ant colonies get tricked into killing their own queens

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide.