The Apuan Alps are a small mountain range in Italy's northern Tuscany. It runs parallel to the nearby Apennines and is separated by a single, broad valley called Garfagnana. On the other side, towards ...

This month, Italy's Herve Barmasse, 47, took a break from alpine-style attempts on 8,000m peaks to do the first winter traverse of all 17 points of the Grand Sasso d'Italia in the Apennines.

The new species was named Temnothorax apenninicus after the Apennines Mountains where they are found ... and acted as oases in places like the Alps. The ants were found at elevations between ...