One kind of tiny ant can serve as a monumental example for how to keep members of a community safe from pathogens. A new ...
SÃO PAOLO, Brazil — In the ancient landscapes of what is now northeastern Brazil, 113 million years ago, an unusual ant with bizarre upward-pointing jaws died and became entombed in limestone. This ...
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Unbelievable discovery: Queen ants produce offspring of two different species, say scientists
In a discovery that sounds almost like science fiction, scientists have found that queen ants of the Iberian harvester species (Messor ibericus) can produce offspring not just of their own kind but ...
A bad day and a dead end for a Cretaceous ant has parlayed into some pretty spectacular science some 113 million years later. The tiny insect, fossilized in a chunk of limestone in Brazil, is the ...
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