When you're a band looking for a comeback, hitting the road to travel the highways and byways across this country can be pretty hellish all on its own: cramped space, long hours driving, crappy motels ...

A philosopher journeys into the world of comparative thanatology, which explores how animals of all kinds respond to death and dying. By Emily Anthes In the summer of 2018, off the coast of British ...

When ants are accidentally marked as dead, they find a way to rejoin the living. By Edward O. Wilson Dr. Wilson is an emeritus professor at Harvard and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. Every corpse ...

Dead ant, dead ant, dead ant, dead ant, dead ant, dead aaaaaant... Corny joke, I know. And it likely sails over the heads of anyone unfamiliar with the theme music from the old Peter Sellers movies ...

They're well known for their industrious work, but now a species of ant on Kangaroo Island is also showing that it is skilled at 'playing dead', a behavior that researchers believe is a recorded world ...

Playing dead is a common defense mechanism in the animal kingdom, but scientists in Australia have discovered an example on a whole new scale. Entire colonies of ants were found to be feigning death, ...

They’re well known for their industrious work, but now a species of ant on Kangaroo Island is also showing that it is skilled at ‘playing dead’, a behaviour that University of South Australia ...