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Ants did it first
Hold up, humans. Ants figured out medicine, farming and engineering long before we did.
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Nature & Wildlife
Dead clever: Kangaroo Island ants’ killer strategy to avoid predators
They’re well known for their industrious work, but now a species of ant on Kangaroo Island is also showing that it is skilled at ‘playing dead’, a behaviour that University of South Australia researchers believe is a recorded world first.
Nature & Wildlife
Ant-Man taps into only a portion of the real superpowers of ants
From deadly jaws and enormous strength to mushroom farming, the Ant-Man movies show just some of the many astonishing superpowers of real-life ants.
Nature & Wildlife
Wasps, bees and ants: nature’s honey makers
When you think of honey you probably think of bees, but wasps and ants can produce honey as well.
Nature & Wildlife
The science behind ant vision
In an ant’s world, the smaller you are the harder it is to see obstacles.