The fact that this ant is the earliest ant ever found and already possessed the same iconic scythe-like jaws as other hell ants, suggests that these traits evolved early after ants first appeared.

(CN) — Scientists have identified what is now considered the oldest ant specimen in the fossil record, a 113 million-year-old "hell ant" discovered in northeastern Brazil. The groundbreaking find, ...

113 Million-Yr-Old Fossil of ‘Hell Ant’ Found in a Chunk of Limestone Is the Oldest Known Ant Specimen Ever Identified New findings in nature provide experts with a better understanding of ...

They found, interestingly, that it appeared to be most closely related to the hell ant species Aquilomyrmex huangi from 99 million years ago that was found in Myanmar amber.

The 113 million-year-old fossil of a hell ant preserves tiny details of the insect's wings. - Anderson Lepeco Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter.

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds a report published in Current Biology. The hell ant, which was ...

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds a report publishing in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on April ...

Preserved in limestone, the newly described extinct insect is what’s known as a hell ant, a member of a subfamily called Haidomyrmecinae that lived during the Cretaceous period between 66 ...

The “remarkably well-preserved" hell ant was found in limestone in Brazil. (Anderson Lepeco via SWNS) By Stephen Beech A 113-million-year-old fossilized ant is the oldest ever discovered.

Preserved in limestone, the newly described extinct insect is what’s known as a hell ant, a member of a subfamily called Haidomyrmecinae that lived during the Cretaceous period between 66 million and ...

Micro-computed tomography imaging — a 3D-imaging technique that employs X-rays to view inside the ant — revealed that the bug was closely related to hell ants previously known only from ...