At the business end of these raiding parties are the soldiers, bearing enormous heads armed with long, scissor-like mandibles ...

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Army ants form some of the largest insect societies on the planet. They are quite famous in popular culture, most notably from a terrifying scene in Indiana Jones. But they are also ecologically ...

An army ant from the Amazon rain forest in Brazil. Photo by Sean Brady. ITHACA, N.Y. -- Army ants, nature's ultimate coalition task force, strike their prey en masse in a blind, voracious column and ...

The ant photographs of Mark Moffett, a Harvard-trained ecologist, are often compared to art. He talks with Alex Chadwick about his latest article... The ant photographs of Mark Moffett, a ...