This new species of blind, subterranean, predatory ant, Martialis heureka, was discovered in the Amazon. It belongs to the first new subfamily of living ants discovered since 1923, and is a ...

Meet the latest living fossil, a long-lost insect uncle from the late Cretaceous: Martialis heureka, the newly discovered ant species directly descended from a previously unknown branch of Earth ...

This new species of blind, subterranean, predatory ant, Martialis heureka, was discovered in the Amazon. It belongs to the first new subfamily of living ants discovered since 1923, ...

Better known as the "Ant from Mars," Martialis heureka is a direct-line descendant of the last common ancestor of all ants — a subterranean forager who wouldn't go above-ground until flowering ...

The new ant is named Martialis heureka, which translates roughly to "ant from Mars," because the ant has a combination of characteristics never before recorded.

image: This new species of blind, subterranean, predatory ant, Martialis heureka, was discovered in the Amazon by Christian Rabeling at the University of Texas at Austin. It belongs to the first ...

Martialis heureka, which translates roughly as “ant from Mars,” because it has a combination of characteristics never before recorded. “What we say now, and we’re very conservative, is one ...

Yet the species Martialis heureka could help rewrite the history of ants on Earth. Found in Brazil, the ant has a pale body and no eyes, says Christian Rabeling of the University of Texas at Austin.

German biologists have discovered a new species of ant they believe is the oldest on the planet, dating back around 120 million years.