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Until the discovery of antibiotic medicine last century, doctors frequently performed amputations to save the life of a patient with an infected wound. But humans aren’t the only animal to perform ...

The insects seem to know which injuries to treat as they engage in a behavior that seems almost human. By Annie Roth The life of a Florida carpenter ant can be brutal. These half-inch ants are ...

In a still from a video, an ant at the bottom of the image bites off the leg of a wounded ant with a purple marker on its back. Danny Buffat Researchers have observed Florida carpenter ants ...

Lindsey Vonn credited her doctor with saving her leg from amputation in an Instagram video posted Monday, going in-depth on the severity of the injury she suffered in her devastating crash at the ...

Scientists have discovered that Florida carpenter ants perform life-saving amputations on injured nestmates, a level of medical intervention previously only observed in humans. The ants assess wound ...

Like battlefield medics, Florida carpenter ants are the first known animal to triage wounds and adapt treatments. In a first, researchers have observed that a species of Florida carpenter ant ...

WASHINGTON, July 2 (Reuters) - Limb amputations are performed by surgeons when a traumatic injury such as a wound from war or a vehicle accident causes major tissue destruction or in instances of ...