A tiny fossil preserved in 16 million-year-old amber revealed an extinct Caribbean species that mastered the art of ...

Wherever there's dirt there's bound to be ants, but one particular group is so adept at blending in with the ground that they ...

An ancient dirt ant encased in 16-million-year-old amber was unearthed from the Dominican Republic, and it’s the first ...

Learn about the extinct species of "dirt ant" that was found in 16-million-year-old Dominican amber, adding an important ...

A piece of amber from the early Miocene was discovered in the northern mines of the Santiago Providence of the Dominican Republic and then deposited in a natural history museum, according to a study ...

The ancient fossil shows these elusive ants have a longer history connected to Earth's soil than previously thought.

The research suggests that dirt ants once inhabited the Caribbean islands before vanishing during the Miocene epoch.

but captured in amber, it’s like finding a diamond,” study author Gianpiero Fiorentino said in an April 15 news release from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. The ant was identified as a ...

A rare 16-million-year-old ant preserved in amber is helping scientists uncover new secrets about one of nature's most ...

New Jersey Institute of Technology researchers uncover evidence of 16-million-year-old ant from the Caribbean.