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09/06/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

The first farmers were ants… and they’ve been farming for millions of years

Researchers from the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History recently discovered that ants in a South American rain forest developed their own agricultural system millions of years ago. To be more precise, around 55 to 65 million years ago, shortly after dinosaurs became extinct. According to the study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal […]

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