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Oldest LIving lineage of ants discovered in Amazon

physorg.com — A new species of blind, subterranean, predatory ant discovered in the Amazon rainforest by University of Texas at Austin evolutionary biologist Christian Rabeling. It belongs to the first new subfamily of living ants discovered since 1923, and is a descendant of one of the first ant lineages to evolve over 120 million years ago

Who dugg this? Made popular Sep 16, 2008

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  • Exzhaton, on 09/16/2008, -3/+21Dugg for buggs that digg.
  • thunkamunk, on 09/15/2008, -2/+11it looks kinda waspy

    dugg for being called ant from mars but not being 2 stories tall
  • Laiden, on 09/16/2008, -1/+9So, it's younger than McCain...
  • copypastry, on 09/16/2008, -2/+7in before McCain old joke
  • RobotBuddha, on 09/16/2008, -0/+5"evolutionary biologist Christian Rabeling is likely a descendant of the very first ants to evolve."

    I like taking things out of context.
  • IronChef69, on 09/16/2008, -0/+5"likely a descendant of the very first ants to evolve"

    Aren't all ants???
  • xamado, on 09/16/2008, -0/+4Wow, seems it's true you can buy anything at Amazon.
  • zeabu, on 09/16/2008, -0/+4Church of England this week has "confirmed" Evolution. They said it is not because Darwin made some minor errors, we should abandon all of his work. They aknowledge earth is older than 6k years.

    Still staying agnost though.
  • BradHAWK, on 09/16/2008, -0/+4Ants and wasps (and bees and hornets) belong to the same Order - hymenoptera (which = "membrane winged").
  • zeabu, on 09/16/2008, -0/+3You are creationist?
  • AlgnPelotudo, on 09/16/2008, -1/+4100,000,000,000,000,000 used & new available from $1.99
  • BossKey, on 09/16/2008, -0/+3blind, subterranean, predatory...perfect overlord material
  • copypastry, on 09/17/2008, -0/+2That wasn't the name of every single creature in the animal kingdom... that was just a loud yelping noise
  • TheCatsPants, on 09/16/2008, -0/+2I think ants, bees and wasps all belong in the same phylogenetic order.
  • stuffradio, on 09/16/2008, -0/+2Digg that ant!
  • enantiodromia, on 09/16/2008, -1/+3Sometimes I wonder how long exactly it took Adam to name every single creature in the Animal kingdom, sitting on that rock in Eden.

    Surely it would take longer than 6,000 years, no?
  • inactive, on 09/16/2008, -2/+4yup if you were half an inch tall and stuck underground in the amazon, this thing would find you and eat you.
  • wertach, on 09/16/2008, -1/+3I just hope they don't make it to the U.S.! The damn fireants are bad enough!
  • NexusV2, on 09/17/2008, -0/+1Get it right, underlords....they digg.
  • NexusV2, on 09/17/2008, -0/+1Sorry attempt at a funny comment?
  • ghostfaceDX, on 09/16/2008, -0/+1busy getting boned by eve, that bitch.

    STAY AWAY FROM THE ***** TREE HOW HARD IS IT
  • zeabu, on 09/17/2008, -0/+1Well, it's not purely a "good story with a happy ending". They do so because they consider ID and creationisme a threat for their church.
  • inactive, on 09/16/2008, -0/+1Okay, I'll go eat some Jesus flesh now. :-)

    Really though, thanks for pointing that out. ;-)
  • trebol, on 09/16/2008, -0/+1I love how an Orkin Insecticide ad comes up in the middle of this article....poor ants!
  • inactive, on 09/16/2008, -1/+2I, for one, welcome our new Antsy overlords!
  • Fragnarg, on 09/16/2008, -0/+114 legs?
  • inactive, on 09/16/2008, -0/+1Hike.
  • inactive, on 09/19/2008, -0/+1But since we are all on digg.com, that makes them our overlords again.

    /paradox
  • willwillywilson, on 09/17/2008, -0/+1Best. Comment. Ever.
  • Napiertt, on 09/16/2008, -1/+2He was busy boning Eve
  • LucasVB, on 09/16/2008, -1/+1Better link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000067FP3/
  • Robottsuperbug, on 09/16/2008, -1/+0Dugg for UT Austin
  • NOD32user, on 09/16/2008, -1/+1I didn't know he was sitting on a rock?
  • inactive, on 09/16/2008, -2/+1It's not true. God made the world 3000 or.. 6000 years ago. Just ask any church!
  • Alias1431, on 09/16/2008, -2/+1What about the oldest linage of Aunts?
  • deluna, on 09/16/2008, -1/+15 leg
  • sl9sl9, on 09/16/2008, -2/+2It's ironic that the forename of this "evolutionary biologist" is "Christian".
  • deluna, on 09/16/2008, -1/+16 leg
  • Brian994, on 09/16/2008, -3/+0You've come a long way ant...not. Props for growing eyes again though.
  • kiwimonk, on 09/16/2008, -3/+0Sorry attempt at a spore Ad?
  • travisharju, on 09/16/2008, -3/+0This just in, Tiny seeing eye-dogs discovered at ancient ant farm!
  • pinkpackrat, on 09/15/2008, -5/+1blind,subterranian and predatory--e-w-w-w-w-w.
  • Lane, on 09/15/2008, -5/+0it looks kinda zombified
  • sbaysem, on 09/15/2008, -6/+1wait till I tell my friend ant eater about this. lolz
  • latrosicarius, on 09/15/2008, -6/+03 legs
  • sockpuppets, on 09/16/2008, -8/+1Link:
    http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00000IRUG/
  • fr0mundacheese, on 09/16/2008, -9/+2Another fine use of tax dollars, put this one on the list please.

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