Researchers have discovered a never-before-seen species of "hell ant" that lived 113 million years ago, making it the oldest ant fossil ever found.

The 113 million-year-old fossil of a hell ant preserves tiny details of the insect's wings. Anderson Lepeco. Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter.

When the fossil was 3D scanned, this revealed other characteristics that identified it as a hell ant. For instance, it had forklift-like mandibles that may have enabled it to skewer other insects.

The oldest ant fossil ever discovered had forward-facing scythe-like jaws it used to hunt, according to a new study in Current Biology.. Now the oldest ant specimen known to science, the roughly ...

A new 113-million-year-old ant fossil was discovered preserved in limestone in Brazil. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday.

Researchers say the fossil adult worker ant—a newly discovered species notably smaller than its modern relatives, named Basiceros enana—now offers direct evidence that the cryptic ant group ...

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The 113 million-year-old fossil of a hell ant preserves tiny details of the insect's wings. - Anderson Lepeco. Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter.

The fossil ant also possesses other distinctive morphological characteristics like today's dirt ants, including an upturned propodeal spine, a trapezoid-like head structure, as well as predatory ...