Some ants are impressive farmers. You might have seen leaf-cutter ants carrying plant bits back to their colony — not for ...

Others — just as complex and mysterious — continue to live on, largely unobserved, for countless eons. Consider leafcutter ants in the genus Atta. Up to 8 million of these industrious insects live in ...

The Amazon rainforest is home to some of the most unusual and, in some cases, dangerous on earth that show little care or ...

For centuries we have believed that humans were unique in our ability to farm and cultivate our own food. However, it turns ...

Fifty million years before humankind began farming, ancient ants were already in the agriculture business. Over time, leafcutter ants have evolved a complex system of agriculture in their nests ...

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