Every day in the Panamanian rainforest, green fragments shuffle across the forest floor. Each piece hides a worker beneath it – a leafcutter ant on a mission. These insects are among nature’s most ...

Scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama discovered that carrying oversized loads limits the ability to perceive the trail in leafcutter ants, akin to blind spots whi ...

Ants and termites are both incredible engineers. Here's how you can tell the difference between an ant hill and a termite mound.

Scientists studying the clonal raider ant have now discovered how this works: each neuron activates one odor gene while silencing all the others. The finding reveals a hidden genetic process that ...

National parks are teeming with wildlife. Check out this list of animals in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park!

Wildlife Field Research is a week-long bioblitz conducted every spring and fall on the Cibolo Center for Conservation’s Cibolo Nature Center campus. During this research event, teams of community ...