Ant armies can consume over 500,000 other creatures in a single day. And new research reveals one of the first armies began in Europe.
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“Army ant workers participate in raiding swarms, hunting other insects and even vertebrates,” says Christine Sosiak, a study author and a student at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, in a “From everything we know about army ants living today, there’s no hint of such extinct diversity,” says Phillip Barden, a study author and an assistant professor of biology at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, in a press release. “With this fossil now out of obscurity, we’ve gained a rare paleontological porthole into the history of these unique predators.
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