Researchers discover that ants from millions of years ago used the same sensory organs as modern ants

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Jun 17, 2024, 8:58 am158 pts
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.

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