Amber Fossil Shows 'Hell Ant' Was Unlike Anything Alive Today

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Amber Fossil Shows 'Hell Ant' Was Unlike Anything Alive Today

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The 99-million-year-old ant had scythe-like jaws that swung upward to pin prey against a horn-like head appendage

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Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology[a] or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossils to classify organisms and study their interactions with each other and their environments (their /c/paleoecology. Read more…

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