Exploding ants use their own bodies as a deadly weapon, rupturing themselves to release a sticky, toxic substance that stops intruders in their tracks. This rare and extreme survival tactic ...

Colobopsis explodens, employs a unique defense mechanism: self-destruction. When threatened, these ants rupture their own bodies, releasing a sticky, toxic substance to immobilize predators and ...

Exploding ants have been known to science for more than 200 years, and the special ability for which they are named was first documented in 1916.

How exploding ants do their work At the Kuala Belalong Field Studies Center in Brunei, there is a nest of very special ants. They explode.