A doctoral student's backyard discovery has turned into a scientific breakthrough - the newly discovered dung beetle, named after the Egyptian goddess Hathor, is protected by aggressive ants.

This body of work should be both original and outstanding. When a weaver ant colony went hunting for small insects on a dry riverbed, this beetle began to pick them off. In an act of defence, one of ...

Ingo Arndt (Germany) documents the efficient dismemberment of a blue ground beetle by red wood ants. “Full of ant” is how Ingo described himself after lying next to the ants’ nest for just a few ...