Most ant species are born into royalty. But for Indian jumping ants, female workers can fight for the crown. The catch? The winner becomes queen, but its brain also shrinks. In a study published ...

The matchmaking service is a tactic to avoid inbreeding. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Worker ants are known to take on many ...

Even among ants, royal status is mostly an inherited affair. But for Indian jumping ants, a shot at wearing the crown is worth losing a bit of your brain for — especially as you'll always be able to ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

Whether fire ants bow to one queen or accept many rulers depends on one long strand of genes, a new study finds. The gene sequence is the first "social chromosome" ever discovered, according to study ...

James Gilbert receives funding from the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme. Photos by Alex Wild (www.alexanderwild.com). Worker ants are a funny old bunch, of many shapes and sizes. But ...