Rare 'supersoldier' ants created in Canadian lab

Friday, January 6, 2012 - 17:30 in Biology & Nature

Canadian researchers have discovered they can induce supersoldier ants — whose bodies react to stress by expanding in size with huge oblong heads and giant vicious jaws — in the Pheidole ant species.

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