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Or Rather, Cretaceous Park
The discovery of splendid fossilized specimens dating back about 95 million years ago in Ethiopia, Africa (though back then the continents weren’t in the same relative position) could change our understanding of the origins of some species, including ants, and of the ecology of Cretaceous woodlands. The mainstream theory on ants is that they originated from what is now North-America or East Asia, but a fossilized wingless ant older than previous fossils (see the picture below) could change all that… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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