In this high-stakes insect showdown, the bull ant and the bullet ant go head-to-head in a battle of the most painful stings ...

Ants may be small, but some species pack a powerful punch with their venom. Among these, the South American bullet ant (Paraponera clavata) is famous for delivering one of the most excruciating stings ...

A bullet ant displays its fangs while sitting on a leaf. Ants that inflict the world's most painful stings do so by injecting venom that targets their victim's nerve cells, new research has found.

Insects may be small, but some of them have a pack of powerful punch. From sting-venoms to disease transmission, certain ...

On Sunday’s Naked and Afraid, the 13th season kicked off with a couple of the show’s past all-stars, 40-year-old firefighter Fernando Calderon and 31-year-old EMT Dani Beau, trying to survive in an ...

For the record, ant bites aren’t as common as you might think. “All ants can bite but they rarely do unless harassed,” says Jody Gangloff-Kaufmann, Ph.D., associate director of community & urban ...

aren’t the only critters with poison potential. Insects also evolved to use venom as a weapon for warding off attackers or immobilizing prey. But instead of using their fangs as a delivery device, ...

The 13th season of Naked and Afraid kicked off on Sunday, with a couple of the show’s past all-stars trying to survive in an Ecuador rainforest with one of the most concentrated collections of ...