SCIENCE * LAB SCREAM : REVOLUTION IN MINIATURE

'' USURPER in the ant colony : A fake queen seizes the throne. " : the ant world is filled with Machiavellian dramas, as the insects quest for control of colonies.

NOW experts have identified a kind of regicide that has never been documented before : Some parasitic ant queens can sneak into a colony and trick worker ants into killing their real queen, fomenting violent  revolution against their own mother.

'' It's like a story out of '' Game of Thrones,'' said Daniel Kronauer, an evolutionary biologist at the Rockefeller University in New York who was not involved with the study.

The discovery was made by a Toku Shimada, an ant enthusiast in Japan, and described in the Journal Current Biology.

The Publishing continues to Part [ 2 ].

The World Students Society thanks Rebecca Dzombak.