Ants took over the world by following flowering vegetation out of prehistoric forests

As we speak, ants are just about in all places. To be taught extra about how these bugs conquered the world, scientists used a mixture of fossils, DNA, and knowledge on the habitat preferences of contemporary species to piece collectively how ants and vegetation have been evolving collectively over the previous 60 million years. They discovered that when flowering vegetation unfold out from forests, the ants adopted, kicking off the evolution of the 1000’s of ant species alive at this time.