You might have heard that ant colonies follow a queen—but did you know these queens can be dethroned? A new study has documented the queen of one ant species dethroning the queen of another. The usurper accomplished this by tricking the worker ants into killing their own mother queen, then taking over as the new ruler of the colony. It’s a form of matricide that’s both dramatic and unusual in nature, leaving scientists with many questions about how and why it happened. Learn more about invading