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Mammals have developed some unusual eating habits over the past 100 million years, but a new study has uncovered the ...

Evolution is an incredible process that has filled our world with a richly diverse set of species. In this sense, it is a ...

Ants began farming fungi 66 million years ago after an asteroid hit Earth, according to a new study. Here the queen and workers of the leaf-cutter ant species Atta cephalotes tend to a fungus garden.

According to new research, relying on ants as a sole food source has evolved at least 12 times in mammals since the reign of ...

Environment Agriculture The dinosaur-killing asteroid turned ants into farmers The insects grew fungi crops millions of years before humans even existed. Andrew Paul Oct 7, 2024 3:30 PM EDT ...

In a paper published today in the journal Science, scientists at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, LSU and other institutions analyzed genetic data from 475 species of fungi and ...

Ants began farming fungi 66 million years ago after an asteroid hit Earth, according to a new study. Here the queen and workers of the leaf-cutter ant species Atta cephalotes tend to a fungus garden.

The ants and fungi help each other, but they might be able to help human farmers, too. “Humans have been practicing agriculture for 12,000 years,” Schultz said. “Ants, for 66 million years.” ...

Ant farmers tend fungus gardens Schultz has been studying fungus-farming ants, including leaf-cutters, for more than 35 years to try to figure out how this unusual behavior evolved. To trace the ...

To trace the evolution of this relationship between ants and fungi, Schultz and his colleagues built complex family trees. Using the DNA from 475 species of fungi, including 288 species known to ...