Paleontologists owe a special debt to harvester ants. While crazy ants and the more familiar red fire ants get most of the attention for their impacts on local ecology, those invasive insects have ...

Harvester ants in Nebraska unearthed thousands of fossilized teeth and jaw bones, leading scientists to the discovery of 10 new species. By Annie Roth A small group of paleontologists recently ...

Researchers have uncovered an unusual survival strategy in Iberian harvester ants that turns basic biology on its head: The queens can produce eggs that develop into two different ant species. A team ...