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Oldest Ant Fossil Discovered, Caterpillar Wears Remains of its Prey, and TDIH - First Rubber Patent

Cool Stuff Ride Home

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Researchers find a 113-year-old ant fossil, the oldest ever found and the caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey. On This Day in History, the first rubber patent is issued, so we look at the history of rubber. Researchers find oldest ant known to science—113-million-year-old ‘hell ant’ with scythe jaws | National Geographic The new ‘Bone Collector’ caterpillar wears the remains of its prey – and we have the footage to prove it | BBC Science Focus Magazine The Wonder of Rubber and the Why of History - Columbus Classical Academy | K-12 Classical Education Industries - Business History of Industries - Business History Books HISTORY OF RUBBER | Facts and Details A Brief History of Rubber Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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of Cool Stuff Ride Home, where we have some of the more interesting, intriguing, and cool stories from

1:07.4

around the world and throughout history. I'm Reggie Rizzou, alongside Marcus

1:11.2

Path. On today's episode, researchers find a 113-year-old ant fossil, the oldest ever found,

1:19.0

and the caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey. On this day in history, the first

1:24.0

rubber patent is issued, so we look at the history of rubber. That's all coming up on cool stuff.

1:29.3

Turning now to National Geographic and author Olivia Ferrari, the oldest ant

1:35.3

fossil ever discovered had forward-facing scythe-like jaws it used to hunt.

1:40.3

This according to a new study in the peer-reviewed journal Current Biology. Now the oldest

1:46.2

ant specimen known to science, the roughly half-inch-long 113 million-year-old impression preserved

1:53.3

in limestone, was found in northeastern Brazil and is a new genus belonging to the hell ant

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