The U.S. Forest Service is giving kids (and adults) the chance to submit name suggestions for a recently discovered species of ant, as an exercise to teach students how new species get their ...

They are creatures whose lifestyles resemble humans in most ways, but the first thing most of us do on seeing an ant in our home is to squash the life out of it. However, from their organisational ...

Have you have seen ants this year? In Britain, they were probably black garden ants, known as Lasius niger—Europe’s most common ant. One of somewhere between 12,000 and 20,000 species, they are the ...