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School of Ants: Crowdsourced Biogeography

Dr. Andrea Lucky and her team bring us a pretty interesting crowd sourced experiment on picnics most feared enemy, ants. All you have to do to take partis collect some ants from an urban environment (Apparently pecan sandies are Read More →

Giant Ant Colony Excavated

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFg21x2sj-M Researchers filled a Giant Ant colony full of concrete to reveal the amazingly complex structure below. Of course, they probably could have used ground penetrating radar to accomplish the same thing without wiping out the ants.

E.O. Wilson on Ants

Photo Credit: Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology[audio http://citizensciencequarterly.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/OSAAT_EOWilson1.mp3]

Renowned evolutionary biologist Edward O. Wilson has spent his long career cracking the Read More →