This little idle tycoon game is all about building your own anthill and creating new colonies in different territories. Provide for your ant queen, hatch thousands of workers and establish ant trails ...

Ants - champion weightlifters and builders, soldiers, queens, drones, all toiling diligently to populate and maintain colonies, which for some species can span miles. And then there are the slackers - ...

TUCSON, July 4 (UPI) --Compartmentalized and regimented -- ant societies are a model of efficiency. But they're not perfect. Some ants are lazy. When scientists at the University of Arizona noticed a ...

Ants are the true lords of the underground and they live among us. They’ve been building cities and expanding their communities well before man was able to cobble together his first hut. Now, you can ...

The ant Pristomyrmex punctatus has no queens — female workers reproduce asexually. But that doesn't mean that everyone is equal. Some nests harbour 'cheaters' that shirk their duties and concentrate ...

According to a new study from Georgia Tech, ants are experts at avoiding traffic jams because of an unusual virtue: laziness. Researchers studied groups of fire ants digging tunnels in a lab container ...

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Anna Dornhaus, associate professor with the University of Arizona's ecology and evolutionary biology department, about its study on slacker ants. Ants - champion ...