'Stuff of nightmares': 33 bizarre new ant species discovered

Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - 12:30 in Biology & Nature

A total of 33 previously unknown ant species have been discovered in Central America and the Caribbean. The nearly blind ants live in leaf litter and rotten logs in rain forests and are all quite tiny, each less than one-twelfth of an inch (2 millimeters) in length, according to new research.

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