How Everything Works on Instagram: "When scientists poured molten aluminum and later cement into a massive abandoned ant colony to study its structure, they uncovered one of the most extraordinary examples of natural engineering ever documented. Once the material hardened, researchers spent days carefully excavating the surrounding soil, eventually revealing an enormous subterranean metropolis that extended several meters below the surface. The resulting metallic sculpture exposed a labyrinth of

National Geographic on Instagram: "You might have heard that ant colonies follow a queen—but did you know these queens can be dethroned? A new study has documented the queen of one ant species dethroning the queen of another. The usurper accomplished this by tricking the worker ants into killing their own mother queen, then taking over as the new ruler of the colony. It’s a form of matricide that’s both dramatic and unusual in nature, leaving scientists with many questions about how and why it h