SYDNEY -- "Crazy ants" are devouring the famous migrating land crabs of Australia's Christmas Island and may have killed off up to half the crab population in the past few years, a conservation ...

Ants have a particularly striking reputation for being somewhat relentless, and as it would seem, such a reputation doesn’t fetter even when the animals they torment are significantly larger than they ...

They may be tiny, but yellow crazy ants are turning the ecosystem of Christmas Island, Australia, upside down. Ecologist Dennis O’Dowd of Monash University in Australia is now analyzing how this ...

POISON dropped by helicopter on the ant colonies rampaging round Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean has cleared the way for the land crab population to recover. The crabs are a vital part of the ...

Christmas Island residents are once again sharing their home with millions of red crabs as they make their way to the ocean, with their numbers having "skyrocketed" in recent years.

In Brisbane, Australia in 2001, a telecommunications worker was sent to the hospital for an insect sting that was burning severely. The red fire ant, native to South America and notorious both for its ...