15-09-18 In the vast East China Sea, there was a huge turtle. It carried the Penglai Fairy Mountain on its head, floated and swam in the great sea, sometimes soaring into the sky and sometimes diving to the bottom of the sea. A red ant on land heard of the h...
14-10-08 A man once saw a ship go down with all its crew, and commented severely on the injustice of the gods. They care nothing for a man's character, said he, but let the good and the bad go to their deaths together, There was an ant-heap close by where he...
14-02-24 On a cold, frosty day an ant was dragging out some of the corn which he had laid up in the summertime, to dry it. A grasshopper, half perished with hunger, besought the ant to give him a morsel of to preserve his life. What were you doing, said the...
14-01-24 There was once an ant that was very thirsty. 有只蚂蚁口渴了。 It ran here and there looking for some water but could not find any. 它到处找水喝,可就是找不着。 Then suddenly, when the ant was almost ready to die of thirst, a large drop of water fell...
13-05-23 Scientists discovered a new enigmatic(神秘的) species of ant coming from the Philippines. Cardiocondyla pirataor the pirate ant engages the imagination with a bizarre pigmentation pattern that has no equivalent worldwide. The female castes in the...
13-01-17 Researchers have discovered a social chromosome in the highly invasive fire ant that helps to explain why some colonies allow for more than one queen ant, and could offer new solutions for dealing with this pest. The red fire ants live in two differ...
12-05-07 A parasite that fights the zombie-ant fungus has yielded some of its secrets to an international research team led by Penn State's David Hughes. The research reveals, for the first time, how an entire ant colony is able to survive infestations by th...
10-08-19 A 48-million-year-old fossilised leaf has revealed the oldest known evidence of a macabre(可怕的) part of nature parasites(寄生虫) taking control of their hosts to turn them into zombies(僵尸) . The discovery has been made by a research team l...
09-11-09 A researcher of the University of Granada has designed a new system for the mobility of military troops within a battlefield based on the mechanisms used by ant colonies(蚁窝) to move using a commercial videogame. This work, developed at the depar...
09-08-02 Ants believed to have a kamikaze attraction to electricity have been discovered in one of England's finest National Trust gardens. 英国最好的国民托管组织的一座花园之中发现了对电有神秘吸引力的蚂蚁。 The ants are said to be more attracted to electrici...