While animal mothers are known to sometimes dispatch of their young, very few animals will kill their own mother: the care ...

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

In a forest floor coup that sounds almost fictional, a newly described parasitic ant has evolved a way to make loyal workers ...

Experts discovered an unusual form of regicide in which a parasitic ant queen tricks workers in a colony into turning on ...

Video footage from a new series captures thousands of fire ants building a floating raft to save the colony from drowning in a swimming pool. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...