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 ...

A new study from Smithsonian scientists analyzes ant and fungus species ... The cataclysm not only wiped out almost all the dinosaurs, only leaving beaked birds behind, but also triggered ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

And the history this study reveals suggests that the cooperation between ants and their crops began after the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs, when little beyond fungi could thrive.