One popular and unusual toy of old was a live ant farm. For just a few dollars, you could own a tank filled with actual ants and watch them establish their own colony. Ant farms were also popular in ...

Ant farms were first invented as a way for researchers and scientists to study how ants behave and interact with each other, but it wasn’t long before they became popular educational toys. They’re ...

Ant colonies are surprisingly complex and definitely worthy of scientific observation. This was the basic premise behind the original ant farms (antariums) introduced in the late 1950s. From ads in ...