Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Colobopsis cf. explodens (Exploding Ant) crawling on tree bark in the rainforest of Sumatra, Indonesia. Known for its ...

A small reddish ant living in the treetops of Southeast Asia has one of the most unusual defences in the animal world. When threatened, some workers of Colobopsis explodens can rupture their own ...