Read more about the article Astonishing Moment Ant Colony Amputates Severely Injured Ant’s Leg To Save Its Life
Image shows an illustration of an amputation, undated photo. When wounded an ant bites off the leg of an injured conspecific, and then treats the wound by licking it. (Hanna Haring/Newsflash)

Astonishing Moment Ant Colony Amputates Severely Injured Ant’s Leg To Save Its Life

Colony of ants amputates the leg of a seriously injured ant to save its life in a discovery that puts them closer to humans in their treatment of injury than…

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Read more about the article Boffins Discover New 20-Million-Year-Old Ant Species Encased In Amber
Image shows the extinct ant in the Hereon measuring station at DESY's X-ray light source PETRA III in an undated photo. A German research team from the University of Jena discovered a previously unknown extinct ant in 20 million-years-old amber. (Hammel, Laustroer/Newsflash)

Boffins Discover New 20-Million-Year-Old Ant Species Encased In Amber

Astonished scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of ant after scanning a 20-million-year-old block of amber. Researchers in Germany, France and Poland made the remarkable find after using micro-computed…

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