Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The exotic pet market is a lucrative business. If a smuggler is successful, they could make hundreds, if not thousands, off the illegal pet trade. This is all too tempting for professional animal ...

Two Belgian teenagers were arrested in Kenya for suspected ant smuggling. The pair were found in possession of 5,000 ants, including several , a large East African ant which can sell for tens or ...

The story of how tiny ants managed to push lions to kill more African buffalo shows how the arrival of an invasive species can affect multiple animals that seem to have no connections. At an animal ...

An image of a reproducing female ant – a queen – sourced from South Africa can be seen on a social media page of an online store based in another continent. A quick Google search shows that the same ...

The ants are flying in Kenya at the moment. During this rainy season, swarms can be seen leaving the thousands of anthills in and around Gilgil, a quiet agricultural town in Kenya's Rift Valley that ...

An antibiotic substance created by bacteria found on a species of African ant native to Kenya inhibits the growth of vancomycin-resistant Enterococci and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, ...

University of Queensland researchers have uncovered the workings of ant venom by measuring electric currents through individual channels in cells to understand how it causes pain. “This ant bite ...

Old residents in Zanzibar will remember the sensation that was created when the wife of a foreign consul, walking with her husband on the Muari minoja, — the ‘Rotten Row’ of the African Ceylon, — ...