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Monstrous “Hell Ant” That Thrived 113 Million Years Ago Revealed in Oldest Fossil of Its Kind Ever Discovered
The Debrief ^ | April 24, 2025 | Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

Posted on 04/25/2025 7:03:00 PM PDT by Red Badger

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To: mabarker1

A #12 shoe works well................


41 posted on 04/25/2025 9:24:57 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

That’s what you hear when you play “Eleanor Rigby” backwards. ;^)


42 posted on 04/25/2025 9:29:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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Hubris, Nemesis Moment: "We're giant ants, and we can lift 50 times our own weight."

43 posted on 04/25/2025 9:32:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: fidelis

Scariest show ever


44 posted on 04/25/2025 10:21:27 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: PGR88

Let’s not forget lawyer mosquitoes!


45 posted on 04/26/2025 12:05:51 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: mabarker1
Flies, fleas, ants, ticks, mosquitoes, cockroaches, lawyers and politicians. Nuke them all.

The only good bug is a dead bug!

46 posted on 04/26/2025 12:50:42 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: Red Badger

All that writing and they did not say how big the ant was and why it is called the Hell ant.


47 posted on 04/26/2025 1:27:05 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: minnesota_bound

‘Hell Ants’ are called that because they are unusually large, 10-12mm, and they have huge mandibles, long and curved like two swords. There are some species still on Earth today..................


48 posted on 04/26/2025 1:33:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

113 million years ago they should be this size...

Them! https://gonewiththetwins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/them_tall.jpg

https://prod-images.tcm.com/Master-Profile-Images/them1954.16456.jpg


49 posted on 04/26/2025 2:06:28 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: Red Badger

I love ants... When they’re dead.


50 posted on 04/26/2025 2:36:48 AM PDT by Bullish (I've never seen such morons... Have you?)
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To: Red Badger

suggesting they may have originated in deep, dark Africa?


51 posted on 04/26/2025 3:22:54 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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To: Red Badger

They made a movie about “Them” ants


52 posted on 04/26/2025 5:37:41 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: Smellin Salt
113 million years old, not 112 million, not a 114 million, but exactly 113 million. Just curious how they arrived at that age.

Sooo maybe just 113 years old?

53 posted on 04/26/2025 5:47:41 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Yes, I am the Toxic Troll Terminator)
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To: null and void

That .38 snubnose would be soooooo effective against an ant the size of a bus.


54 posted on 04/26/2025 5:55:00 AM PDT by LiveFree99
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To: Red Badger

Bill Gates trying to resurrect it now.


55 posted on 04/26/2025 5:59:11 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: BlackbirdSST

✅✅


56 posted on 04/26/2025 6:08:55 AM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! I’m a fraud, hypocrite & liar. I'm a member of Congress!!)
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To: 11th_VA
Scariest show ever

Yup. Freaked me out as a kid. I hated ants for a long time after that.

57 posted on 04/26/2025 6:20:39 AM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: LiveFree99

“Get the antennae he’s helpless without them!” “Get the other antenna!”

It also helped that his partner had a Tommygun and came quickly...


58 posted on 04/26/2025 6:26:57 AM PDT by null and void (Democrats: fake news, fake presidents, fake beliefs, fake policies, fake protesters & fake voters!)
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To: Smellin Salt

October 9.


59 posted on 04/26/2025 6:51:42 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Red Badger

60 posted on 04/26/2025 6:56:47 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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