Dead ants ressurected
researchers have recently discovered 92-million-year old fossilised ants. With this discovery, it has become clear that these omnipresent insects have been on the Earth for more than twice as long as what was previously thought. Entomologists at the American Museum of Natural History in New York found the ants in Cliffwood Beach in New Jersey, usa , at a site well known for its insect fossils.
David Grimaldi, head of the museum's department of entomology says that the discovery of a fossilised specimen of a primitive, extinct ant species named Sphercomyrma Freyi resolves a decade-old question about the insect: is it an ant, or is it a wasp? The insect's head is wasplike; but the waist