September
24
/ 2018
A 98-million-year-old amber specimen collected from an excavation in Myanmar, formerly Burma, has yielded a new species of 'hell ant' with a spiky metallic mouth which it used to suck its victims’ blood. American biologist, theorist, naturalist and author E.O. Wilson estimates that the total number of individual ants alive in the world at any one time is between one and ten quadrillion with a total biomass “equal to the entire human race.” According to a World Info article that works out to around 1 million ants for every human on Earth. And while today we get the odd bite, we can be thankful we didn’t have to deal with their ancestors. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"52875","attributes":{"alt":"Tropical fire ants (Solenopsis geminata) get their name
