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“Our team has discovered a new fossil ant species representing the earliest undisputable geological record of ants,” Anderson Lepeco, a study co-author and paleontologist from the Museu de ...

The find earned it the title of the oldest such specimen, according to a paper in the journal Current Biology. The fossil is a member of Haidomyrmecinae — an extinct subfamily from the Cretaceous ...

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Ants are tiny powerhouses that can lift 100 times their weight and fend off lions. They have also lived on Earth for millions of years longer than previously thought. That’s according to ...

The ant fossil's discovery challenges our understanding of ant evolution and biogeography through time, according to the researchers. The previous oldest ants were found in France and Burma and ...