In this high-stakes insect showdown, the bull ant and the bullet ant go head-to-head in a battle of the most painful stings ...

Ants may be small, but some species pack a powerful punch with their venom. Among these, the South American bullet ant (Paraponera clavata) is famous for delivering one of the most excruciating stings ...

Bullet and greenhead ants produce toxins they inject with every sting, which prolong nerve signals to the brain and lead to trembling, uncontrollable and long-lasting pain in mammals. When you ...

The Amazon's bullet ant may be tiny, but this little insect has the most painful sting in the world. At just 1.2 inches long, the bullet ant doesn't look like that dangerous of an insect. While its ...

University of Queensland researchers have shown for the first time that some of the world’s most painful ant stings target nerves, like snake and scorpion venom. Dr Sam Robinson and colleagues at UQ’s ...

If you’ve been stung by an ant, you know how painful it can be. Australian researchers have found that some of the most painful ant stings are caused by nerve-targeting neurotoxins. But, unlike those ...

Bullet ants contain a venom not so much deadly as it is excruciatingly painful, and for the first time ever, scientists have been attempting to extract it. An ant living in the Amazon rainforest can ...