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In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists in Brazil have discovered the world’s oldest known ant fossil of a 113-million-year-old specimen of a fearsome predator known as a "hell ant." Unearthed from ...

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Ants took up farming some 50 million years ago, according to U.S. researchers who traced the ancestry of farmer ants. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

A 113-million-year-old hell ant fossil discovered in northeastern Brazil's Crato Formation represents the oldest known ant specimen in the fossil record. The remarkable preservation reveals ...