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There’s safety, even power, in numbers. One creature’s confrontation with the world seems insurmountable, almost impossible, but an army of those little creatures can move mountains. And no creature ...

Army ants form some of the largest insect societies on the planet. They are quite famous in popular culture, most notably from a terrifying scene in Indiana Jones. But they are also ecologically ...

An army ant from the Amazon rain forest in Brazil. Photo by Sean Brady. ITHACA, N.Y. -- Army ants, nature's ultimate coalition task force, strike their prey en masse in a blind, voracious column and ...

As part of its epic 10-part journey across the American supercontinent, The Americas takes viewers into the heart of the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest and a hotbed of biodiversity. It covers ...