Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You have probably seen leaf-cutter ants carrying bits of plants, maybe in a nature documentary, at a science museum or in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Humans began farming thousands of years ago, but a new study co-authored by two LSU professors says ants had us beat by millions ...

The event that wiped out the dinosaurs wasn't all bad. The low-light environment caused by the meteor impact some 66 million years ago favored the spread of fungi that feed on organic matter, which ...

We tend to think of agriculture as a human innovation. But insects beat us to it by millions of years. Various ant species cooperate with fungi, creating a home for them, providing them with nutrients ...

A group of South American ants has farmed fungi since shortly after the dinosaurs died out, according to an international research team including Smithsonian scientists. The genes of the ant farmers ...

Insects trapped in amber have provided a unique window to ecosystems that died out millions of years ago. Ants and other species who lived alongside dinosaurs but preserved in fossilized tree resin ...

(CNN) — You have probably seen leaf-cutter ants carrying bits of plants, maybe in a nature documentary, at a science museum or in the “Circle of Life” song at the beginning of the 1994 Disney animated ...

Humans began farming thousands of years ago, but a new study co-authored by two LSU professors says ants had us beat by millions of years. In a paper published today in the journal Science, scientists ...