A colony of termites (IMAGE)

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University

A colony of termites

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Termites are a type of cockroach that split from their sister cockroach group around 150-170 million years ago. Previous research suggested that, after this split, they very gradually got smaller, but this study did not support this theory.

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OIST

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