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

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 ...

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 ...

Some mammals evolved to eat only ants and termites. It happened at least twelve times. These animals developed special ...

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If you want to get by in this world, you could do a lot worse than developing a predilection for ants. In fact, ant-eating ...

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.” ...

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 ...

Researchers have now used DNA analysis to uncover just how long ants have been farming fungi, now described in a study published Thursday in the journal Science. It turns out these insects have been ...

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.

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.