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'Once the ant turned its back on the colony and walked away, it was on a death march. And the parasite was in the driver's seat'
"Once the egg hatches, the ant has only a few weeks of life before it succumbs to the manipulations of its attacker, ...
‘Rare’ new species found in 16-million-year-old amber. ‘Like finding a diamond’
A piece of amber from the early Miocene was discovered in the northern mines of the Santiago Providence of the Dominican Republic and then deposited in a natural history museum, according to a study ...
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Ancient Amber Has Kept a Dirt Ant Frozen in Time For 16 Million Years
Learn about the extinct species of "dirt ant" that was found in 16-million-year-old Dominican amber, adding an important ...
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Ants, facts and information
Other species, like the newly discovered Pheidole drogon, have evolved to grow spikes or spines from their exoskeletons. (How these ants help find fossils.) One Amazon species (Allomerus ...
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It turns out that a species of ant has an overwhelming black color 'ultra black' that absorbs more than 99.5% of light
Previous studies have shown that ant wasps repel most predators with their hard exoskeleton and venomous stingers. In addition, although males of Traumatomutilla bifurca have the same pattern as ...