Walking under a pole barn the other day, I noticed dozens of small pits dug in the sand under the protective tin roof of the barn. Remembering my youth, it reminded me of hours spent in the trance of ...

A tiny invasive ant muscled into a Kenyan savannah and sparked such a dramatic transformation in the landscape that even the local lions changed the way they hunt, according to research published ...

Ant lions are ferocious predators, but some of them don’t have a mouth. At least not in the usual sense. Over evolutionary time, the slit at the front of the mouth cavity has sealed shut in the ...

How did the ant steal the lion’s dinner? This isn’t the beginning of one of Aesop’s Fables. It’s the finding of a new study showing how the disruption of one tiny mutual relationship on the African ...

NEW YORK — A tiny invasive ant muscled into a Kenyan savannah and sparked such a dramatic transformation in the landscape that even the local lions changed the way they hunt, according to research ...

The invasion of non-native species can sometimes lead to large and unexpected ecosystem shifts, as Douglas Kamaru and colleagues demonstrate in a unique, careful study that traces the links between ...