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Title: Fossil of a giant ant found in North America
Source: CBC News
URL Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/s ... ience-giant-ant-archibald.html
Published: May 6, 2011
Author: CBC News
Post Date: 2011-05-07 21:38:05 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 245
Comments: 7

The fossil of a gigantic ant, similar to ones that lived 50 million years ago in Europe, has been found for the first time in North America.

Some scientists believe it is a new species.

The winged queen ant collected in the Green River Formation in Wyoming is "about the size of a small bird — about the body mass of a small bird as well," said Bruce Archibald, the Simon Fraser University researcher who identified it. "It's pretty impressive."

Archibald, who specializes in studying fossil insects, is lead author of a paper about the ant published this week in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

The fossil had spent some time in a drawer at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Colorado, where there were no fossil insect experts available to look at it.

When Archibald visited the museum, curator Kirk Johnson decided to take advantage of his expertise and showed him some unidentified specimens.

Archibald realized one of them closely resembled giant ant species that lived in Germany during the same period, the Early Eocene.

No such whole fossils had been found in North America before, although a fossil wing, belonging to a different species, had turned up in Tennessee, Archibald said.

The new North American species was named Titanomyrma lubei and is believed to be closely related to the German giant ant species.

The climate in both Germany and Wyoming during the Early Eocene was hot and steamy "like the kind of heat you'd find today in Panama or Central America," Archibald said.

The similar fossils on both sides of the Atlantic suggest giant ants somehow travelled between Europe and North America.

On one hand, that was plausible because there was a land bridge near Greenland connecting the two continents. There was just one problem — it wasn't very hot there.

"The mystery is how [they] could have passed through this temperate climate region," Archibald said.

A closer examination of climate patterns in the Arctic shows that there were brief periods of global warming during the Early Eocene when the climate may have reached tropical temperatures.

"A physiological gate of climate could have opened periodically and allowed tropical adapted organisms to pass between continents," Archibald said.

Similarly, he said, recent reports of dragonflies in northern Canada, where they haven't been seen before, suggests that insects can expand their ranges in response to climate change in a very short amount of time.

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#1. To: X-15 (#0)

A closer examination of climate patterns in the Arctic shows that there were brief periods of global warming during the Early Eocene

Those danged dinosaurs and their gas guzzling SUVs.


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Critter  posted on  2011-05-07   23:42:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Critter (#1)

We're still coming out of the last ice age, keep SPF 15 sunscreen handy.

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X-15  posted on  2011-05-08   0:37:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: X-15 (#0)

A closer examination of climate patterns in the Arctic shows that there were brief periods of global warming during the Early Eocene when the climate may have reached tropical temperatures.

WHAT?!? How is this possible without the presence of humans?


Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

farmfriend  posted on  2011-05-08   2:57:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: X-15 (#2)

keep SPF 15 sunscreen handy.

Not high enough for my white skin.


Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

farmfriend  posted on  2011-05-08   2:58:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: farmfriend (#3)

A closer examination of climate patterns in the Arctic shows that there were brief periods of global warming during the Early Eocene when the climate may have reached tropical temperatures.

WHAT?!? How is this possible without the presence of humans?

Retroeffective Glowbull Warming. CO2 was transported back in time through a wormhole.

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Original_Intent  posted on  2011-05-08   3:23:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: farmfriend, Original_Intent (#3)

WHAT?!? How is this possible without the presence of humans?

Articles like this are a *clear and present danger* to faddish dogma masquerading as 'established' science.

I read another article within the past few years that detailed 100-year droughts via rings in cross sections of 2,000-year old trees from California.

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"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?"

“The best and first guarantor of our neutrality and our independent existence is the defensive will of the people…and the proverbial marksmanship of the Swiss shooter. Each soldier a good marksman! Each shot a hit!”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941

X-15  posted on  2011-05-08   8:21:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: X-15 (#6)

I read another article within the past few years that detailed 100-year droughts via rings in cross sections of 2,000-year old trees from California.

Bite your tongue!


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farmfriend  posted on  2011-05-08   12:22:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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