As part of its epic 10-part journey across the American supercontinent, The Americas takes viewers into the heart of the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest and a hotbed of biodiversity. It covers ...

Most of us associate ants with productivity. You probably imagine them digging tunnels, laying down pheromone trails, hauling ...

Among them, one species stands out for its extraordinary size, the Dinoponera ant, widely recognised as the world’s largest ...

This army is in formation. Thousands of fire ants have been spotted floating on floodwaters through the Texas city and forming rafts using their bodies with residents now reporting the gross behavior.

Scientists have found evidence that the hairy bodies of some tarantulas keep them safe from a dangerous—but tiny—foe. Reading time 3 minutes Scientists may have solved a mystery about one of nature’s ...