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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.
Its new moniker? Titanomyrma lubei.
And they didn't even have to get all sweaty to find it. The new fossil caught paleoentomologist Bruce Archibald of Simon Fraser University’s eye as he and coauthor Kirk Johnson poked around storage drawers at the Denver Museum of Nature&Science, where Johnson works.
Giant ants once roamed Wyoming - Science News
