Scientists in Brazil found a very old ant fossil. This fossil is 113 million years old. It is of a 'hell ant,' a type of ...

The fossil’s discovery in Brazil shows that ants have been around for longer than once thought. This insect impaled its prey ...

Previously, the oldest known ants came from amber in France and Myanmar, dating back about 100 million years. This new ...

The far north of Scandinavia is synonymous with Christmas – and minus 30 degree temperatures. Which makes visiting at a ...

Not wanting to become prey to the spitting spider, jumping spiders build their nests over aggressive weaver ants. This is done because spitting spiders have an aversion to the chemical smell the ...

S ammy Ramsey was having a hard time getting information. It was 2019, and he was in Thailand, researching parasites that kill bees. But Ramsey was struggling to get one particular Thai beekeeper to ...

They include single-celled organisms but also ants, silkworms, mice and an intrepid “spidernaut” named Nefertiti. (An 18-year-old student from Egypt proposed studying whether Nefertiti, a jumping ...

It seems Sophie Ellis-Bextor can't get enough of Nottingham. The sparkly pop icon's biggest UK tour has a date at ...

I feel like an 80-year-old woman, clambering over slippery rocks on all-fours. I appear to have – rather embarrassingly – ...

We strip off and make our way into the 16C water, James diving off boulders with confidence, Poppy cannonballing her body into the lake, Rosie nervously jumping, and I slide in, delicately.

Jumping spider’s diet includes insects like flies, moths, and other spiders. They leaps on prey like a tiny lion.