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09/06/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

The first farmers were ants… and they’ve been farming for millions of years

Researchers from the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History recently discovered that ants in a South American rain forest developed their own agricultural system millions of years ago. To be more precise, around 55 to 65 million years ago, shortly after dinosaurs became extinct. According to the study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal […]

06/15/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Mathematical model shows how ants behave when faced with an obstacle

You have probably seen a troop of ants hauling chunks of food many times their size and weight back to their home colony. A new mathematical model developed by Israeli researchers can predict the actions the insects will adopt when they run into an obstruction while transporting that food, an article in Science Daily stated. […]

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