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Fungus-farming ants cultivate multiple species of fungi for food, but the history of fungus-ant co-evolution is poorly known. In a new study published this week in the journal Science, researchers found that fungus-ant agriculture originated approximately 66 million years ago when the end-of-Cretaceous asteroid impact temporarily interrupted photosynthesis, causing global mass extinctions but favoring the proliferation of fungi. Nearly 250 different species of ants in the Americas and [...]