There are some pretty crazy ways that animals and insects defend themselves. And some insects prioritize the health of the ...

Some ants defend their colonies with a tactic so extreme it ends in self-destruction. This video explains how “exploding ants” rupture their own bodies to release a sticky, toxic chemical that can ...

Outside the kitchen door at the Kuala Belalong Field Studies Center in Brunei, on a number of trees near the balcony, there is a nest of very special ants. They explode. Other WRAL Top Stories This ...

These tiny Temnothorax ants just successfully defended their nest entrance against an intruder (a giant Aphaenogaster ant) in Duke Forest, Hillsborough, NC. Magdalena Sorger The exploding ant is ...