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

A new study demonstrates that ants began farming fungi after an asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, causing a global ...

You have probably seen leaf-cutter ants carrying bits of plants ... back to their nests to feed a garden of fungi, which produce food for the ants. Researchers have now used DNA analysis to ...

All the queens were seen to survive even after eating infected larvae. The researchers suggest this may be due to the queen ...

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

“They have small brains, and yet they manage to carry out this complicated suite ... and the fungi in what’s called mutualism. The ants get food, and the fungi get room and board, plus careful ...