Using a synchrotron powered CT scanner, the Antscan project created an open-source digital library cataloguing thousands of ...

The Antscan database captures the tiny insects’ diversity and shows how the world’s living things could be rendered in three dimensions.

Some ants might actually not be ants at all, and instead be other animals pretending to be them. Pictures from a new paper in the journal Biology Letters show ants, other insects and spiders that all ...

Ants trapped in amber reveal possible partnerships and parasites, offering a rare glimpse into ecosystems from nearly 100 ...

Researchers studied six pieces of amber containing fossilized ants with other insects nearby revealing an ecosystem in the ...