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Monstrous “Hell Ant” That Thrived 113 Million Years Ago Revealed in Oldest Fossil of Its Kind Ever Discovered
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| April 24, 2025
| Kenna Hughes-Castleberry
Posted on 04/25/2025 7:03:00 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
To: BipolarBob
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posted on
04/25/2025 7:34:23 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Democrats: fake news, fake presidents, fake beliefs, fake policies, fake protesters & fake voters!)
To: Red Badger
I had ants that big in my back yard in New Mexico. Not to mention 5 inch long centipedes, black widows with dime-sized abdomens, and those tarantula hawk wasps that were like 3” long. It was the Pleistocene era at my house.
To: Red Badger
I recognized that right away...I’m so old.
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posted on
04/25/2025 7:42:37 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too. 😁 " - Robert Conquest )
To: Red Badger
I hope they never find any of its DNA. They will re-created it.
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posted on
04/25/2025 7:44:14 PM PDT
by
Revel
To: Red Badger
What it shows is that ants were always ants with no evolution. In the technical link you gave one of the subheadings is “Novel evidence for the early diversification of ants” - in other words, they just appear fully formed and diversified. This is the norm for all branches of life as seen in the fossil record, contrary to what the media try to portray.
To: PLMerite
You and me both!...................
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posted on
04/25/2025 7:55:39 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Disambiguator
I found another news story about this same fossil, and the ant (Vulcanidris cratensis) measured about half an inch long.
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posted on
04/25/2025 8:02:05 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: null and void
I'll call your "Them!" and raise you a "Zanti Misfit"
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posted on
04/25/2025 8:12:48 PM PDT
by
fidelis
(Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
04/25/2025 8:15:10 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
("Uncle Sugar" is being audited and having an enema.)
To: fidelis
Now we call them Tren de Aragua...
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posted on
04/25/2025 8:17:48 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Democrats: fake news, fake presidents, fake beliefs, fake policies, fake protesters & fake voters!)
To: Disambiguator
50 feet long? no way, from BipolarBobs live action photo I would guess maybe 8 feet max.
To: Beowulf9
I think most, if not all, ants have a winged version in their life cycle.
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posted on
04/25/2025 8:34:24 PM PDT
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gundog
(The ends justify the mean tweets. )
To: Red Badger
To: captmar-vell
I was engaging in a bit of hyperbole. These articles make it sound like these creatures were like something out of a 50s horror movie, but in reality they’re about the same size as creatures living today.
To: Red Badger
“Make me a Sergeant and gimmee the booze!”
(Them b/w age scifi movie reference)
To: Disambiguator
Laugh, I know and was only joking, and was actually just agreeing with you, the article didn’t seem to mention the ‘prehistoric’ size, so we are free to speculate these were giant ‘Land of the Lost’ ants battling dinosaurs for their dinner in the forbidden city of the sleestaks.
To: Red Badger; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
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posted on
04/25/2025 9:11:14 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: Red Badger
Flies, fleas, ants, ticks, mosquitoes, cockroaches, lawyers and politicians. Nuke them all.
Correction- send them all to space and depressurize the capsule because they would survive a nuke.
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posted on
04/25/2025 9:19:22 PM PDT
by
mabarker1
((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! I’m a fraud, hypocrite & liar. I'm a member of Congress!!)
To: Red Badger
10-12mm long.............So a 410 shotgun should do the trick ?
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posted on
04/25/2025 9:22:59 PM PDT
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mabarker1
((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! I’m a fraud, hypocrite & liar. I'm a member of Congress!!)
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