Newest Ant Species is Has Oldest Ancestors
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 14:07
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Sometimes the smallest discovery lends itself to the biggest insight. That certainly was the case for University of Texas at Austin graduate student Christian Rabeling, who found a new ant species in the Amazon that is likely the descendent of one of the first ants to evolve on Earth more than 120 million years ago. read more
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