After a recent period of major rainfall, I visited a wooded area to see what animals I could find, wondering if any had left for Noah’s Ark. I turned over an old piece of roofing tin and noticed that ...

When this tree is down in the trenches of a dry season and battling pesky leaf-eaters, it calls upon its trusty allies: ants. Ecuador laurel trees will produce an extra dose of sweet, sticky sap to ...

In the forest, carpenter ants have a job to do, recycling woody debris, such as dead trees and fallen logs. But these large ...

Carpenter ants often get the blame when a tree dies and thousands of the little scurriers are found running in and out the crime scene. The truth is they didn’t do it. The ants were just taking ...

Anyone who has spent time in the tropics knows that the diversity of species found there is astounding and the abundance and diversity of ants, in particular, is unparalleled. Scientists have grappled ...

If you were a tree, you wouldn’t have to worry about taxes or traffic or most of the things that stress out a human. Your problems would run more to things like having enough water and being found by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Discovering a line of ants brazenly wandering across your kitchen counters is not exactly a pleasant occurrence, and neither is ...

Ants in your pants? That's nothing compared with ants up your snout. And that's what elephants in the African savanna must contend with when trying to snag a meal from a certain type of acacia tree.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American It's a David versus Goliath kind of story, ...

Campers know the pesky feeling of ants crawling up and down their arms and legs. For elephants in Kenya’s central highlands, the sensation is disturbing enough to keep them far away from a variety of ...

Ants in your pants? That's nothing compared with ants up your snout. And that's what elephants in the African savanna must contend with when trying to snag a meal from a certain type of acacia tree.