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 ...

A bad day and a dead end for a Cretaceous ant has parlayed into some pretty spectacular science some 113 million years later. The tiny insect, fossilized in a chunk of limestone in Brazil, is the ...

A paleoartistic reconstruction of the new species, based on the fossil and on a close relative species found in amber from Myanmar. Now, a team in Brazil has uncovered a 113-million-year-old hell ant ...

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds a report published in Current Biology. The hell ant, which was preserved ...

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds a report publishing in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on April 24.

This insect is not an ant, although it is always referred to as an ant. It looks like a large red and black hairy ant, but is really a wingless female wasp. It is a very nervous insect as it hurries ...

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A fossil of a "hell ant" has just been identified as the oldest ever discovered. This finding sheds new light on the early evolution of these social insects. Researchers have uncovered an exceptional ...

A 113-million-year-old fossilized ant is the oldest ever discovered. The “remarkably well-preserved" hell ant was found in limestone in Brazil. Scientists say it is a member of Haidomyrmecinae - an ...