Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs led to the invention of ‘ant agriculture’ (IMAGE)

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Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs led to the invention of ‘ant agriculture’

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Image magnified a thousand times shows nutritive vesicles (gongylids) produced by the fungus Leucoagaricus gongylophorus, cultivated by the lemon leafcutter (Atta sexdens) 

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André Rodrigues/IB-UNESP

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