A bad day and a dead end for a Cretaceous ant 🐜 has parlayed into some pretty spectacular science 🔬 some 113 million years later. The tiny insect, fossilized in a chunk of limestone 🪨 in Brazil 🇧🇷, is the oldest known ant specimen ever identified.
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113-Million-Year-Old 'Hell Ant' Discovery Is Oldest Ever Found
"We were shocked by the characteristics."
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A newly discovered batch of fossils in the Grand Canyon, laid down just 3 million years after the Cambrian Explosion, shed new light on the little-understood evolutionary trends that directly followed the famous event 🦴🦕🌍✨
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Stunning Grand Canyon Fossils Reveal Evolution's Weird Experiments
Life after the explosion.
Scientists have reconstructed the atmospheric composition of the prehistoric air dinosaurs breathed 🌍🦖, by studying an isotope of oxygen in fossilized dinosaur teeth 🦷🔬.
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Prehistoric Air Has Been Reconstructed From Dinosaur Teeth in an Amazing First
A powerful tool.
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