Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs led to the invention of ‘ant agriculture’ (IMAGE)

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Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs led to the invention of ‘ant agriculture’

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Colony of the species Atta colombica, unearthed in Gamboa, Panama. In the center of the photo, much larger than the workers, is the queen 

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Pepijn W. Kooij/IB-UNESP

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