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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 […]

08/01/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Rewrite HISTORY? Scientists discover that potatoes were likely domesticated in North America almost 11,000 years ago

Researchers have discovered the earliest example of the use of potatoes in North America, and it dates back far longer than previously believed. The archaeologists found “well-preserved starch granules” in cracks in the rocks that were used to grind the potatoes up in what is being labeled the oldest evidence of potato cultivation in North […]

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