A swimming ant has been discovered in North Queensland, Australia.  The polyrhachis sokolova "nest in submerged mangroves and survive by hiding in air pockets and then swimming to the surface. 

The ant was discovered by accident:

I [Dr. Simon Robson] was actually working with a film crew working on insects in the mangroves and they wanted to film one of these ants and I said, 'Well, lets put it on a rock in a puddle of water and that'll stop it going away and then you'll be able to film it,' and the ant promptly just leapt off the edge of the rock and swam across the water and disappeared.

There isn't much to the article, but what a cool find.

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