2/2: #ANT-FARMiNG: The ant colony that farms and prospers on fungi created out of the eco collapse of 66 million years ago. Ted Schultz, Smithsonian Museum. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com
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🗓️ 29 October 2024
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2/2: #ANT-FARMiNG: The ant colony that farms and prospers on fungi created out of the eco collapse of 66 million years ago. Ted Schultz, Smithsonian Museum. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com
The coevolution of fungus-ant agriculture. Science, 386(6717), 105-109. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adn7179
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| 0:59.5 | enamologist, Department of Enemology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian, about an article he |
| 1:05.6 | and his colleagues have published about something that might have been in practice before |
| 1:12.3 | the asteroid, the meteor struck Yucatan and |
| 1:15.4 | ended the dinosaurs but certainly blossomed afterwards and continues which is |
| 1:20.2 | a relationship between ants, very small ants, who farm fungi in order to create food |
| 1:29.8 | basis for their continued existence. |
| 1:33.0 | Fungi are not plants, they're not animals, they're a separate kingdom. |
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