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Humans began farming thousands of years ago, but a new study co-authored by two LSU professors says ants had us beat by millions of years. In a paper published today in the journal Science, scientists ...

One of the interesting things here is that ants have no capacity to think “uh, oh… what do we do now? Oh. How about fungus?” So they must have already had some adaptation(s) to finding/consuming ...

(CNN) — You have probably seen leaf-cutter ants carrying bits of plants, maybe in a nature documentary, at a science museum or in the “Circle of Life” song at the beginning of the 1994 Disney animated ...

Researchers have now used DNA analysis to uncover just how long ants have been farming fungi, now described in a study published Thursday in the journal Science. It turns out these insects have been ...