But scurrying across this land of extreme whiteness is, paradoxically, one of the darkest animals on Earth: a species of velvet ant known as Traumatomutilla bifurca. With its furry exterior and ...

A velvet ant bite like “hot oil from the deep fryer” delivers an array of peptides that inflicts pain on insects and mammals alike.

This species has a red thorax with bold black-and-white markings on the abdomen. Unusually for a velvet ant, instead of searching out the nests of solitary species to lay their eggs in, M. europaea ...