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

Ants' complex caste system may be partly controlled by the insect ... (Similar enzymes have not been found in the human BBB, but the structure controls hormones in other ways.) "It would be extremely ...

Research highlights how the meteor impact that ended the dinosaurs helped spawn the mutualistic relationship between ants and ...

Ants have farmed fungi for 66 million years, according to new work in the journal Science. It's a relationship that ...

We tend to think of agriculture as a human innovation. But insects beat us to it by millions of years. Various ant species ...

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

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

While our human ancestors began domesticating food crops around 10,000 years ago, a lineage of ants called the "attines" ...

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Occam’s razor holds that the simplest explanation is closest to the truth. But the real world is quite complex ...

This discovery provides a clearer timeline for the development of this remarkable mutualism – where ants and fungi depend on ...

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