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 ...

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.

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

They are kicked in corners, whacked off cabinets, squashed by shoe leather and vaporized by chemicals. A five-foot-long model of an Amazonian ant has been made expressly for the exhibit. "Ants are ...