Tag: hellants
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PBS Eons: The Reign of the Hell Ants
There’s a new episode of PBS Eons. This one is about the Hell Ants… an extinct group of ants that might give us clues about eusociality. This ancient species had the same six legs and segmented body that we’d recognize from an ant today. But it also had a huge, scythe-like jaw and a…
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99-Million-Year-Old ‘Hell Ant’ Attack Captured in Amber
SciNews has a story about an interesting ant found in amber. Found in Burma, the “hell ant” (Ceratomyrmex ellenbergeri) lived during the Cretaceious Period about 78 million years ago. The “hell ants” due to their horn-like appendages on their head. Details can be found in a paper in the journal Current Biology. “Fossilized behavior is exceedingly…
