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 ...

Why would an ant resemble a panda? Or a crab look like a leopard? There is a long list of why animals evolved to look the way they do. For some, it’s about impressing potential partners or ...

Every year, millions of Christmas Island red crabs make their way to the Indian Ocean to lay eggs. David Attenborough's Netflix series "Our Planet II," shows an adult crab feasting on baby crablets.