Ants began farming fungi 66 million years ago post-asteroid impact, with leafcutter ants evolving advanced agricultural ...

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A study investigates the evolution of beneficial bacteria that live inside and on the surface of farming ants. Attine ants ...

A new North Carolina State University study finds that climate change could be destabilizing the mutualistic relationships ...

Those ants don’t eat the leaves — instead they bring them back to their nests to feed a garden of fungi, which produce food for the ants. Researchers have now used DNA analysis to uncover just ...

(CNN) — You have probably seen leaf-cutter ants carrying bits of plants, maybe in a nature documentary, at a science museum or in the “Circle of Life” song at the beginning of the 1994 ...

Exactly 150 years ago, scientists first discovered that leaf-cutter ants were cultivating gardens of fungi inside their nests, feeding the fungi bits of leaves and in turn eating the tips of the ...

Alex Wild via CNN Newsource A worker of the fungus-farming ant species Apterostigma collare from Costa Rica appears in a fungus garden. Shared evolutionary history seems to have benefited both ...