Humans have a knack for remembering faces. And when someone forgets yours, it tends to sting. “This work is absolutely groundbreaking,” says Adrian Dyer, who studies the science of vision at RMIT ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — A wasp may be the first invertebrate shown to have a special talent for learning faces of its own kind. Like people, Polistes fuscatus wasps can tell apart individuals from their ...

At first glance, we might think that all wasps look the same. But if you look closer at the face of a paper wasp Polistes fuscatus, you’ll see a variety of distinctive markings. Each face has its own ...

You don’t want to mess with Ms Big, so it’s useful if you recognise her when you see her. So useful that even wasps can do it. They suspected the wasps developed the skill to keep their home in ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Though paper wasps have brains less than a millionth the size of humans', they have evolved specialized face-learning abilities analogous to the system used by humans, according to ...