These 4,000-year-old termite mounds are visible from space and still in use

Mongabay
Nov 20, 2018, 11:23 am186 pts
In the thorny-scrub forests of northeastern Brazil, some 200 million conical termite mounds rise from the ground. The densely packed piles, visible on Google Earth, are not only large — about 2 to 4 meters (6.5 to 13 feet) high and about 9 meters (30 feet) wide — but also really old, dating back to about…

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