Fifty million years before humankind began farming, ancient ants were already in the agriculture business. Over time, leafcutter ants have evolved a complex system of agriculture in their nests ...

For Atta mexicana, a tropical leafcutter ant that lives here at the northernmost limit of its ... By the 1970s, Mintzer was an undergraduate biology major and “already one of those confirmed ant ...

At its heart is a massive, full-scale ant nest, specially designed and built to allow cameras to see its inner workings. The nest is a new home for a million-strong colony of leafcutter ants from ...

Schultz has conducted extensive research on the evolutionary history of the ant-fungus symbiosis in the last 35 years. Today, ...

Professor Adam Hart is joined by a team of primary school scientists to explore the fascinating underground world of a leafcutter ant colony. The young scientists get hands-on in their lab ...

Leafcutter ants, for example, now grow a specific fungus ... Schultz believes the asteroid played a major role. When the dust and debris from the impact blocked out the sun, many plants and ...