A mother's love isn't necessarily universal across the animal kingdom, with some mothers even resorting to eating children who aren't quite up to scratch. Ant queens in colonies of black garden ants ...

When most people think about hibernation, they picture bears snoozing away the cold winter in their dens. You’re right that other animals do that, too. I talked about your question with my friend ...

When black garden ant queens notice their young are sick, they eat them before the illness spreads to the rest of the nest. A cannibal queen may not win any “mother of the year” awards, but the ...

The practice of eating insects, known as entomophagy, is widespread around the world. Abigail Eisenstadt Leafcutter ants can be found across Central and South America. They build gigantic, ...