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This is John Batche for a conversation with Ted Schultz of the Smithsonian Institution.

He and his colleagues have published a new article in the peer-reviewed science magazine

about ants and fungi, fungus colonies and the death of the dinosaurs at the

Permian Extinction event 66 million years ago.

The title of the piece is The Coevolution of Fungous Ant Agriculture.

There are Ant Farmers.

There was detritus from the asteroid strike that burned down all the forests and destroyed the

ecosystem of the dinosaurs depended upon. The sky was black for weeks, months, years,

centuries unknown. That detritus, the waste on the floor of the former jungles and far and forests, was

seized upon by fungi, and the fungi were farmed by ants.

Not many ants or 14,000 or some incredible number of ant species, certain ants, and this paper is about that theory.

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