Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the biblical text Book of Proverbs, King Solomon describes the harvester ant as a ...

The African Matabele ants are often injured in fights with termites. Their conspecifics recognize when the wounds become infected and initiate antibiotic treatment. The Matabele ants (Megaponera ...

Two Belgian teenagers were arrested in Kenya for suspected ant smuggling. The pair were found in possession of 5,000 ants, including several , a large East African ant which can sell for tens or ...

The exotic pet market is a lucrative business. If a smuggler is successful, they could make hundreds, if not thousands, off the illegal pet trade. This is all too tempting for professional animal ...

COIMBATORE, India — To better understand Equatorial Guinea’s tropical birds, ornithologists Luke L. Powell and Patricia Rodrigues scan the ground rather than the trees. They are searching for nests of ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Throughout the tropics, ants and Acacia trees live together in intricate interdependent relationships that have long fascinated scientists. Now researchers are reporting that in ...

The story of how tiny ants managed to push lions to kill more African buffalo shows how the arrival of an invasive species can affect multiple animals that seem to have no connections. At an animal ...

Old residents in Zanzibar will remember the sensation that was created when the wife of a foreign consul, walking with her husband on the Muari minoja, — the ‘Rotten Row’ of the African Ceylon, — ...