Sentences with phrase «exploding ants»

Scientists recently discovered a new species of exploding ants, which kill themselves to save their colony as a defensive behavior.
The researchers consider C. explodens to be a model species of exploding ant, which means it'll now serve as a reference point, or an exemplar, for future research.
The species are commonly known as simply «exploding ants» until a team of researchers, headed by Alice Laciny, a Ph.D. student at the Natural History Museum in Vienna, officially classified them as Colobopsis explodens.
The results of their survey, published today in the science journal ZooKeys, identifies 15 separate species of exploding ants, including one that's completely new to science.
Exploding Ants is an expository non-fiction text that explains how animals adapt to survive in their environment.
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