As organisms diversified on planet Earth, some branches of the tree of life became exceptionally diverse, others far less so. Still others went extinct. Why evolution favored certain groups over ...

People were not the first farmers. Several groups of ants, and one of termites, were tending fungal plantations for millions of years before Homo sapiens strode the planet. But ants and termites are ...

Ioannis Pisokas has received funding from the University of Edinburgh. Ajay Narendra receives funding from Australian Research Council, Hermon Slade Foundation. Ayse Yilmaz-Heusinger does not work for ...

ANTS are known for their remarkably sophisticated colonies, coordinating their behaviours to transform a pile of dirt into a complex structure in as little as a week – but there are other ...