Ant queen frozen in time: New ant species found in Dominican amber
A study by Dr. Gianpiero Fiorentino and his colleagues, published in the Journal of Paleontology, describes the identification of a new species of ant, Hypoponera electrocacica, belonging to the genus Hypoponera and representing the first occurrence of this genus in the fossil record of the Western Hemisphere, confirming the long-suspected presence of the genus in the Caribbean Miocene.
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