DARKNESS came on suddenly, as it always does in the tropics, and the forests were alive with millions of night things which sing and fly and crawl and sting. I left the house, gun in hand, at about ...

Dian Fossey brought international attention to the plight of Rwanda's endangered mountain gorillas. Her own research with the gorillas was stopped short when she was murdered in 1985. Follow an ...

Legendary primatologist Dian Fossey spent decades documenting the lives of the mountain gorillas of Rwanda. Now, scientists are exhuming the bodies of those gorillas to learn about evolution.

Deep within a termite mound in Africa, soldier termites spring into action, slicing their smaller opponents in half with a snap of their powerful jaws. But the attacking driver ants use strategy to ...

An epic wildlife battle film with a cast of millions that depicts a war that has been going on since the beginning of time, “The Besieged Fortress” portrays the mortal conflict between a colony of ...

We have all been in that situation: the moving boxes are large and heavy, but we are determined to carry them all in one trip, even if that means we can’t see where we’re going. In the tropics, some ...

Slugs are slow, and this makes them easy targets for predators however big or small they might be. Here, we see that a slug has been spotted by a hungry colony of driver ants, and the slug is ...

Deborah M. Gordon enjoys a photographic paean to individual ants and their rarely glimpsed exploits on behalf of the collective. Ant expert and photographer Mark Moffett likes to explore. In ...