Dinosaurs certainly didn’t benefit from the Chicxulub asteroid impact, but that was a wholly different story for the ancestors of today’s ants. In fact, the climatic upheaval that rocked Earth ...

Those ants don’t eat the leaves — instead they bring them back to their nests to feed ... thanks in part to the asteroid that struck Earth and set off a chain of events that led to the demise of the ...

“Ants practice agriculture just like humans ... causing a dramatic die-off of plants and animals, including the dinosaurs (except for birds). But this destruction and decay appear to have ...

Some 66 million years ago, the catastrophic event that wiped out the dinosaurs sparked the beginning of a unique relationship between fungi and ants. The aftermath of a meteor impact darkened the ...

Humans began farming thousands of years ago, but a new study co-authored by two LSU professors says ants had us beat by millions of years. LSU AgCenter mycologist Vinson P. Doyle and LSU Department of ...

Ants started farming 66 million years ago in the aftermath of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, a new study suggests. Colonies of ants began farming the fungi as it experienced “a ...

The prehistoric ant lived among dinosaurs 113 million years ago — several millions of years before previously found fossilized ants — and had an unusual way to kill its prey. Anderson Lepeco ...