Researchers have uncovered an unusual survival strategy in Iberian harvester ants that turns basic biology on its head: The ...

Researchers believe that's partly down to the spider's 'dark DNA' - a mysterious part of the animal's genetic code, and they ...

There have long been five acknowledged living species of bettong: the boodie, the woylie, the northern bettong, the rufous ...

Worker ants perform important tasks like gathering food, taking care of eggs and larvae and nest building. However, some ...

When the researchers peered inside colonies of the Iberian harvester ant, they found two types of ant that looked very ...

Some ant queens can produce offspring of more than one species – even when the other species is not known to exist in the ...

It’s hard to predict which animals will transform like butterflies upon reaching adulthood. Some animals, like horses or antelopes, come out of the womb looking like miniature versions of their fully ...

A study from UNIL explains why some animals transform into fossils when they die, but most simply return to dust.

A new study from the University of Montpellier reveals that sheep and goats, despite being herded together for millennia, ...