In nature, species will sometimes form unexpectedly close bonds and work to their mutual benefit. Symbiotic relationships are the close associations formed between pairs of species. They come in a ...

Nature is full of surprises, but nothing is more mind-blowing than how some animals form life-saving partnerships to thrive together. This is called mutualism, and it's often anything but ordinary. In ...

The analysis of a termite entombed for 100 million years in an ancient piece of amber has revealed the oldest example of "mutualism" ever discovered between an animal and microorganism, and also shows ...