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Ancient termite megapolis as large as Britain found in Brazil
- raattgift 8y agoA video overview: "... two hundred million of these mounds covering an area similar to the UK. This means that 10 km^3 (about 4000 great pyramids of Giza) of soil have been excavated, making this the greatest known example of ecosystem engineering by an insect..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXlS48mptbM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXlS48mptbM And the paper: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)31287-9 https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)...