IT was a peaceful night in January this year for mum-of-six Julie Buckler who was in bed drifting off to sleep beside husband ...

Deep in the forests of Southeast Asia, some ants have a defense strategy that sounds more like science fiction than actual ...

We introduce you to the incredible exploding ant that lays down their life for the benefit of the colony in a spectacular way ...

In the diverse world of ant species, there exists a remarkable defender with an extraordinary survival mechanism that seems straight out of science fiction. The Camponotus saundersi, commonly known as ...

DENVER — Tiny, exploding black holes might explain one of the biggest mysteries about how the universe, in its current form, came to be. In the cosmos, matter is much more common than antimatter. But ...

Have you ever been drifting off to sleep when suddenly you hear what sounds like a gunshot, a door slamming, or an explosion inside your head? You jolt awake, heart pounding, sit upright in bed, but ...

Reporter Paul Linnman and photographer Doug Brazil visited the Oregon Coast on November 12, 1970 during what eventually became known as the Exploding Whale Incident. (KATU) FLORENCE, Ore. (Amazing ...

The exploding ant, known scientifically as Colobopsis explodens, has one of the most extreme defense mechanisms in the animal kingdom. When threatened, certain worker ants rupture their own bodies, ...

Welcome to the weird side of nature and the story of exploding ants. In the humid forests of Malaysia, a worker ant belonging to the genus Colobopsis carefully guards the entrance to a nest. As an ...

Some butterfly species can’t grow unless they trick ants into taking them home with a complex rhythmic signal. By Rebecca Dzombak Rebecca Dzombak has reported on parasitic ant queens and the number of ...