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Giant ants once roamed Wyoming

First complete fossil found in North America

It’s not a bird or a plane, but it is an ant the size of a hummingbird.

SERIOUS ANT A fossil ant queen found in Wyoming is the size of a rufous hummingbird’s body and is the first giant ant species documented by more than a wing in North America. ~~ © Bruce Archibald

A winged ant queen fossilized in 49.5-million-year-old Wyoming rock ranks as the first body of a giant ant from the Western Hemisphere, says paleoentomologist Bruce Archibald of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada.

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