Discovery News: Long Island's giant-headed ants


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Every animal carries a record of its past in its genes — sometimes teeth show up in birds and vestigial limbs on snakes and whales. Ants are no exception. What if that potential could be tapped? And what brings it out?

That’s what a group of scientists at McGill University thought when they ran into a colony of ants on Long Island. A colony of ants known as Pheidole morrisi (more commonly called big-headed ants) had members we call soldiers with really outsized heads and bodies. These were called “super soldiers.”

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Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 1/12/2012 7:00 AM
Categories: Invertebrates
Tags: ants long island Insects ant colony
 

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