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In a recent study, researchers discovered that ants did not adjust their behavior in response to rising temperatures and remained in suboptimal microhabitats even when optimal ones were present.
Army ants (Dorylinae) have spread to most continents due to their nomadic lifestyle and ravenous raiding, but a rare fossil discovery provides the first evidence that the infamous predators once swarmed a land they are now noticeably absent from.
One of the key reasons of the present biodiversity issue is invasive foreign species. People have imported 200 ant species from beyond their normal range in recent years, but most of them are becoming aggressive.
(Photo : Photo from wikimedia.org) One of the most awe-inspiring abilities of ants is the way they grow themselves to fit whatever role the colony needs them to spread and thrive. And in the case of the Indian jumping ants, that even applies to manipulating their very brain size. Of course, there are also a number of other things that make this species of ants a bit special (and therefore, very capable of this type of adaptation). They are known to be on the larger side in terms of ant sizes. Inversely, their colonies only consist of a few members. Furthermore, there is very little differen...