The first thing to understand about velvet ants is that they are not, in fact, ants. They're wasps, some of which are wingless, and are named in part for their fluffy exteriors. About the size of a ...

Some ants might actually not be ants at all, and instead be other animals pretending to be them. Pictures from a new paper in the journal Biology Letters show ants, other insects and spiders that all ...

People have long drawn comparisons between ant societies and human ones – but in fact they are a reminder of how limited our influence on the world really is This essay was originally published as Ant ...