Ants were already practicing agriculture long before humans existed.

2024-10-03 18:01:20
Humans have been growing food for around 12,000 years and it has changed our lives forever. But there are other species on Earth doing the same, and long before us. Among them are ants, which have been practicing agriculture for tens of millions of years, that is, long before the first humans even began to exist. Even if it took a global catastrophe for them to start doing so. As just announced in “Science” by a team of researchers from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, ant colonies began growing fungi immediately after a 10 km asteroid collided with Earth 66 million ago… See More
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