The event that wiped out the dinosaurs wasn't all bad. The low-light environment caused by the meteor impact some 66 million ...

Dinosaurs certainly didn’t benefit from the Chicxulub asteroid impact, but that was a wholly different story for the ...

Ants learned to work with fungi back in a world where only fungi could thrive.

A new study from Smithsonian scientists analyzes ant and fungus species, and uncovers the origins of their close partnership ...

The catastrophic event that wiped out the dinosaurs set the stage for a remarkable mutualistic relationship between certain ...

The asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs sparked a remarkable relationship between ants and fungi, a new study has ...

New research shows that ants have been farming fungi for 66 million years — thanks in part to the asteroid that fueled the ...

The researchers looked for these elements throughout the genomes of 475 fungal species cultivated by ants and collected from ...

The event that wiped out the dinosaurs wasn't all bad. The low-light environment caused by the meteor impact some 66 million ...

Among the most advanced are leafcutter ants, which collect fresh vegetation to feed their fungi. In return, the fungi produce food for the ants in the form of specialized structures called gongylidia.

Exactly 150 years ago, scientists first discovered that leaf-cutter ants were cultivating gardens of fungi inside their nests, feeding the fungi bits of leaves and in turn eating the tips of the ...

It takes about a month for each female to have enough worker ants to feed her. Then she practically becomes an “egg production factory.” In about a year, each colony starts producing ants with ...