Paleontologists studying insects trapped in amber from 99 million years ago have made a remarkable discovery: an ant and a ...

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 ...

Ants Farmed Fungi in the Wake of Dinosaurs’ Demise 66 Million Years Ago A new study from Smithsonian scientists analyzes ant and fungus species, and uncovers the origins of their close partnership.

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 ...

“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 ...

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 learned to work with fungi back in a world where only fungi ... revealed that the ancestor probably lived through the end-Cretaceous mass extinction—the one that killed off the dinosaurs.