These matriarchal rodents often have bloody succession wars to replace their queen. But in a colony in California, Queen Tere ...

When you think of a eusocial colony, insects probably come to mind, such as bees, termites, or ants. However, two species of ...

For more than 30 years, the story of queen succession in naked mole-rat colonies has followed a brutal script: the queen dies ...

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide. The scientist E.O. Wilson once wrote that ants are the most warlike of all ...