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The neurobiology of turtle ants differs significantly according to their specialized role within the colony, according to a study published March 27, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Darcy ...

A new species of ant has been discovered that uses social parasitism to access host ant species' food sources and foraging trails: Cephalotes specularis, commonly known as the mirror turtle ant.

You've probably heard about poop pills, the latest way for humans to get benevolent bacteria into their guts. But it seems that a group of ants may have been the original poop pill pioneers -- 46 ...

March 10 (UPI) --Turtle ant soldiers have evolved a unique defensive strategy. These gate guards use their comically large heads to block entrances to their nests. Some ants have round heads, like a ...

A team of researchers from George Washington University and The Rockefeller University studying the morphology of turtle ant heads found that the critters undergo reverse-evolution in which their head ...

1. Induced defences involve the dynamic deployment of limited and specialized de fensive resources across multiple locations, to maximize organismal defensive function and fitness. They have been ...

The neurobiology of turtle ants differs significantly according to their specialized role within the colony, according to a new study. The neurobiology of turtle ants differs significantly according ...