A multidisciplinary team of scientists from several institutions in Japan, working with colleagues at the American Museum of Natural History, has found evidence that some types of ants that lived during the Cretaceous Period had sensory organs for communication similar to those used by many modern ant species.
Researchers discover that ants from millions of years ago used the same sensory organs as modern ants retrieved 17 June 2024 from https://phys.org/news/2024-06-ants-millions-years-sensory-modern.html
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