After the age of dinosaurs came the age of ant farmers

Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 09:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Soon after the demise of the dinosaurs, ants learned how to farm. The story of the mutualism between leafcutter ants and their fungal crop culminates in industrial-scale farming that surpasses even human farming in its efficiency.

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