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  • Lost Caribbean Predator: 16-Million-Year-Old Dirt Ant Fossil Found in Dominican Amber

    Lost Caribbean Predator: 16-Million-Year-Old Dirt Ant Fossil Found in Dominican Amber

    New Jersey Institute of Technology biologists uncover a tiny but groundbreaking dirt ant fossil, reshaping the evolutionary history of one of the planet’s most cryptic insects. A team of researchers from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has made a remarkable discovery: the first-ever fossil of a “dirt ant” (Basiceros) from the Caribbean, perfectly…

    August 11, 2025

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