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03-07-2002, 02:53 PM
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Wasps-Ant Link?
I was surfing the net looking for stuff for my kids, and found this on a possible link between ants and wasps:
<a href="http://www.calacademy.org/science_now/archive/headline_science/dracula_ants.html" target="_blank">http://www.calacademy.org/science_now/archive/headline_science/dracula_ants.html</a> <a href="http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/ants010110.html" target="_blank">http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/ants010110.html</a> Michael |
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03-07-2002, 03:09 PM
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Don't worry, I'm sure the CIA has been onto this link for years... |
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03-07-2002, 03:14 PM
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A transitional ant/wasp is also known from the fossil record and it matched the predicted characteristics of the transition. The predictions were made before the discovery.
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03-07-2002, 10:55 PM
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The wasp/ant transitional is known as Sphecomyrma:
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