The first time Marcela Cosarinsky saw a nest of Atta vollenweideri leaf-cutter ants, it was the late 1990s and she was in an ...

A few weeks ago, I took my now fully vaccinated puppy (spoiler alert: this summer I adopted an 8-week-old puppy, but that’s a long-winded story for another day) on her first hike. We packed into the ...

Ants are many things. They're hard workers and intensely social. They're quite strong for their size. And now they may also be a source of architectural inspiration too — for designing spaces that ...

Birds are the best-known nest builders, constructing nests to protect their eggs, young, or sometimes themselves, but they ...

A weaver ant worker (Oecophylla smaragdina) in Cambodia protects a herd of fat, red scale insects. Photo by Mark W. Moffett © National Geographic Magazine ...