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113-Million-Year-Old Hell Ant Fossil Found in Brazil


Paleontologists have described the oldest known member of Haidomyrmecinae -- an extinct subfamily of ants that only lived during the Cretaceous period -- preserved as a rock impression in the limestone of the Crato Formation in northeastern Brazil.

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