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Asteroid that doomed dinosaurs created ant agriculture, Louisiana researchers say
Publicado em 06 outubro 2024
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.
LSU AgCenter mycologist and LSU Department of Biological Sciences professor lent their combined expertise to a study led by Smithsonian Institution entomologist, which demonstrates that ants began farming fungi after an asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, causing a global mass extinction.
In a paper published today in the journal scientists at [...]