A newly discovered "hell ant" fossil may be the oldest ant ever found, scientists say. This fossilized insect was unearthed in what is now northeastern Brazil and lived around 113 million years ago, ...

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds a report published in Current Biology. The hell ant, which was preserved ...

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Researchers have discovered an insect that lived nearly 100 million years ago encased in amber. The so-called "Hell Ant" had vertical jaws that it used to pin its prey against its horn-covered head.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A paleoartistic reconstruction of the new species, based on the fossil and on a close relative species found in amber from Myanmar ...

In a 99-million-year-old preserved amber fossil, researchers get a detailed glimpse into how 'Hell Ants' hunted with scythe-like mandibles and horn appendages In findings published Aug. 6 in the ...

A 99-million-year-old amber fossil preserving a deadly encounter between two insects has proven what scientists long suspected about some of the Earth's first ants. The insect's ancestors had a deadly ...

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A 99-million-year-old piece of amber trapped this worker hell ant grasping an ancient relative of modern cockroaches in its unique jaws, which swung upwards unlike all modern ants. NJIT, Chinese ...

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