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bayouhalflings@aol.com etherdomain Date: Thu May 5, 2011 10:49 pm
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_Giant Ants Once Roamed Wyoming_
Its not as impressive as THEM!, but it is an ant the size of a
hummingbird
- and for ants, that's huge.
A winged ant queen fossilized in 49.5-million-year-old Wyoming rock
ranks as the first body of a giant ant from the Western Hemisphere, says
paleoentomologist Bruce Archibald of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby,
Canada.
The new species, Titanomyrma lubei, is related to giant ants previously
found in German fossils. These long-distance relatives bolster the
notion that the climate of the time had hot blips that allowed
warmth-loving giant insects to spread from continent to continent,
Archibald and a U.S.-Canada team propose online May 4 in the Proceedings
of the Royal Society B.
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