The Reign of the Hell Ants

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This ancient species had the same six legs and segmented body that we’d recognize from an ant today. But it also had a huge, scythe-like jaw and a horn coming out of its head. This bizarre predator belonged to a group known as “hell ants.” But they’re gone now, and we’re still trying to figure out why.
Please see the pinned comment for a disclaimer on the ethical issues surrounding Burmese amber in paleontology.
The thumbnail is an illustration of Haidomyrmex by Franz Anthony. Thanks to Franz (franzanth.com) and Ceri Thomas (nixillustration.com/) for their Hell Ant illustrations featured in this episode!
And special thanks to Phillip Barden and David Grimaldi for providing images from their paper on Cretaceous ants:
Barden, Phillip and David Grimaldi. “Adaptive Radiation in Socially Advanced Stem-Group Ants from the Cretaceous” Current Biology, February 22, 2016 www.cell.com/current-biology/...
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@eons 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Eons fans, We just want to let you know that we’re aware of the ethical issues surrounding Burmese amber in paleontology. The specimen of Ceratomyrmex that we describe in the introduction comes from a paper by Barden and colleagues published in 2020, and the authors included the following note about it: “The specimen - from the Hukawng Valley, Kachin State, Myanmar - was deposited in the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) prior to the 2017 military control of some mine regions (work on this manuscript began in early 2017). The fossil acquired by NIGPAS was collected in full compliance with the laws of Myanmar and China including Regulation on the Protection of Fossils of China. To avoid any confusion and misunderstanding, all authors declare that the fossil reported in this study was not involved in armed conflict and ethnic strife in Myanmar. The specimen is deposited in the public repository NIGPAS and is available for study." We also tried to follow the guidance of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology on Burmese amber in choosing our images for this episode and not use any images of fossils/amber “collected in or exported from Myanmar since June 2017.” Thanks for watching!

@theraptorore1785 3 жыл бұрын

Fascinating

@arthurheine5631 3 жыл бұрын

Respect

@glennbabic5954 3 жыл бұрын

I was concerned when I heard Myanmar mentioned, and this is good to know, preferably a warning at the start of the video?

@Kuwagumo 3 жыл бұрын

Good to know

@feather314 3 жыл бұрын

What ethical issues? Edit: Oh okay thank you, sorry I didn’t know

@samanthaw8417 3 жыл бұрын

Ants Canada reading the title: *heavy breathing*

@jayav2877 3 жыл бұрын

I was gonna comment nearly the exact Same thing! XD

@jerrdnn3373 3 жыл бұрын

Hahahah

@azide_rdx7937 3 жыл бұрын

Lololo

@jnotyourbusiness1798 3 жыл бұрын

Hahahahaha

@myld_panic4416 3 жыл бұрын

I honestly had a second of thinking time where I was like: AC? Is da youu?

@menkomonty 3 жыл бұрын

Reign of the Hell Ants sounds like something a death metal band would use for their first album.

@eons 3 жыл бұрын

I believe that is exactly the conversation we were all having when thinking about episode titles.

@creativedesignation7880 3 жыл бұрын

I think of a cheaply made 80's horror flick with an hilarious story and really janky special effects.

@Dirtbag-Hyena 3 жыл бұрын

@@eons I was thinking late 70s and early 80s where we had an influx of huge insect horror movies. We even had an ant one where they herded humans as cattle. They were bigger than elephants. Length-wise.

@BlackMasterRoshi 3 жыл бұрын

I believe it was a Pestilence album cover.

@jesperFrost 3 жыл бұрын

@@BlackMasterRoshi no the pestilence cover was called consuming impulse.

@UTurnCub 3 жыл бұрын

"Dad, do you know why the hell ants went extinct?" "What the hell are you talking about? There's ants everywhere."

@gibbous_silver 3 жыл бұрын

Nice joke

@DCM8828 3 жыл бұрын

Ha! Good one!

@nordicfalcon 3 жыл бұрын

Best dad joke/play on words. *Ever*

@charliegarrison9688 3 жыл бұрын

Phrasing!

@rtjf1755 3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha funny joke

@drdiabeetus4419 3 жыл бұрын

"Where'd the hell ants go?" Hell, obviously.

@ElDJReturn 3 жыл бұрын

@DrDiabeetus - Legendary name.

@maruraba1478 3 жыл бұрын

The hell pigs also live in hell now.

@Marine_Dynamite 3 жыл бұрын

Antarctica

@rklein 3 жыл бұрын

Perfect example of my point..

@jadenamoako5731 3 жыл бұрын

The dinosaurs are at hell

@Christian_Sims 3 жыл бұрын

Can you guys do the dire wolves again? Because of the new discovery with them NOT actually being related to wolves at all, but the similarities is because of convergent evolution

@theraptorore1785 3 жыл бұрын

I agree, I would like to see about that discovery

@arcticdino1650 3 жыл бұрын

I second this

@stevealexo 3 жыл бұрын

3rd this

@HopeRock425 3 жыл бұрын

I 4th this

@cintronproductions9430 3 жыл бұрын

When I heard about that, I was suprised at first. Am I disappointed? No! If anything Dire wolves are way cooler now! Originally they were just boring old wolves but bulkier. But now they're known to be big, badass dogs whose ancestors entered America way before wolves did! And hey, we can still call them Dire wolves even tho they actually aren't. The modern maned wolf also has wolf in its name but it's not even close. XD

@AntsCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Oh, LOVE this video! Ant have definitely come a long way through Earth's epic history and these Hell Ants are proof! Ants are definitely our elders in the geological timescale! Ant love forever!

@fraxtorgaming 3 жыл бұрын

Huh 3 minutes

@alejandrorojas6835 3 жыл бұрын

Didnt know you watched Eons

@grant8201 3 жыл бұрын

AC how about you make a hell ant colony

@milkbeforecereal7064 3 жыл бұрын

AC about to revive hell ants and make a colony of them.

@rds7696 3 жыл бұрын

I was expecting this comment

@askar9367 3 жыл бұрын

Eons: Look at his weird-jaw ants Me, an intellectual: Ah yes, the Habsburg ants

@theluftwaffle1 3 жыл бұрын

*LAUGHS IN EGYPTIAN PHAROH ANT*

@davidanderson_surrey_bc 3 жыл бұрын

And you, my friend, win this week's best KZfaq Comment Award.

@cheaterman49 3 жыл бұрын

LOL - I mean, species only differentiate thanks to a certain level of inbreeding, right? >__

@cdubsoptional7849 3 жыл бұрын

Lmao, you definitely won this comments section. Now I'm trying to imagine the hell ant version of Philip II, ensconced deep in the bowels of the ant Escorial, sending innumerable missives to all his underlings via pheromone laced leaves

@nordicfalcon 3 жыл бұрын

I. Am. DECEASED 💀🤣😂

@FriedFreya 3 жыл бұрын

I'm so excited to learn about our modern ants' ANTcestors.

@thelonewanderer4624 3 жыл бұрын

Damm hon you got puns!!!

@grimm7507 3 жыл бұрын

Oh stop your ANTics

@xopha 3 жыл бұрын

I'm antxious...

@issacovid1270 3 жыл бұрын

Check out ants Canada

@PerdiccasMKD 3 жыл бұрын

10/10 pun right there

@z0ro_62 3 жыл бұрын

If only they had the power of friendship

@MansakeLabsOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

Whoa , Princess Celestia was right the whole time!

@theayatollahofrockandrolla 3 жыл бұрын

As a Satan worshiper.. I couldn't agree more.

@PotatoSaladMonkey 3 жыл бұрын

No one will understand this meme: *_F R I E N D S H R I M P P O W E R_*

@randompheidoleminor3011 3 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: their horns are also infused with iron. Also technically there's another insect with vertically moving headgear - the rhino beetle. And we know that small colonies of solitary hunting ants of lower eusociality are viable because they still exist in many parts of the world, for instance: Australia's bull ants.

@user-yj4qz5lo6k 3 жыл бұрын

Australia’s bull ants are not the best example as they do form colonies of hundreds and sometimes thousands of workers with higher levels of eusociality. Again there are some species of them with lower levels but I think not the best example. Better examples are Nothomyrmecia, Harpegnathos , Dinoponera as well as Gigantiops destructor some of these will even fight sister workers for prey items and are strictly solitary foragers.

@derrickhageman1969 2 жыл бұрын

@@user-yj4qz5lo6k yeah it's probably the fact the these ants where strong enough to forge on their own and the hell ants some species probably had a powerful sting to effectively take out their prey or utilizing their jaws to kill their prey

@RockFeegz 3 жыл бұрын

Steve, We all miss you as an Eontologist. Sincerely, An Eons fan

@DFloyd84 3 жыл бұрын

Life hasn't been the same since Steve got eaten by hell ants. :(

@MansakeLabsOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

StEEEeeeve!

@Karthonic 3 жыл бұрын

It's weird not hearing his name at the end of these videos. But I hope he's doing okay...

@justdeeznuts 3 жыл бұрын

What happened to him?

@RockFeegz 3 жыл бұрын

I haven't the slightest clue

@FamilyReunion97 3 жыл бұрын

Let me be the thousandth person so say that "The Reign of the Hell Ants" is a pretty killer heavy metal album title.

@varun-xu8gv 3 жыл бұрын

That would also be a great name for an age of empires like game where instead of humans you have armies and empires of insects

@UGNAvalon 3 жыл бұрын

varun Pal - “Empires of the Undergrowth” ? :D

@varun-xu8gv 3 жыл бұрын

@@UGNAvalon or maybe ' age of arthropods'!

@MossyMozart Жыл бұрын

@@varun-xu8gv - Trademark that idea immediately!

@bfkick5971 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine waking up to find these guys stealing your crisps

@thunderflare59 3 жыл бұрын

I'd nope right on out of there.

@sbennett2435 3 жыл бұрын

They can have them. I'm not fighting hell ants (or anything called 'hell') for a few chips.

@holom2076 3 жыл бұрын

@@sbennett2435 call doom slayer.

@kennethfung3618 3 жыл бұрын

@@holom2076 doom exterminator

@holom2076 3 жыл бұрын

@@kennethfung3618 lmao

@jjkusaf 3 жыл бұрын

Surprised these little critters didn't make a comeback in 2020.

@MansakeLabsOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe they did, and now they're just biding their time to strike at the perfect moment.

@cadenrolland5250 3 жыл бұрын

Probably killed off by the Murder Hornets.

@MansakeLabsOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

@@cadenrolland5250 Hooray for Murder Hornets?

@jc.1191 3 жыл бұрын

@@cadenrolland5250 They're gonna team up... Lol

@AifDaimon 3 жыл бұрын

I'm just glad these things are no longer around, though we still have to worry about fire ants

@sagetmaster4 3 жыл бұрын

Brimstone ants are evolving as we speak

@killjoy1523 3 жыл бұрын

I like ants they aren't bad creatures. If u want to see how great they really are watch the channel antscanada. It honestly made me change my mind about most insects

@cintronproductions9430 3 жыл бұрын

Fire ants may be painful, but then there's bullet ants, who rightfully earn their name. Honestly I'd rather get burned by a match than get fricking shot.

@lexid6943 3 жыл бұрын

And velvet ants. They're technically a ground dwelling wasp, but still scary as heck.

@PyroPuffs777 3 жыл бұрын

You never know. Ants are pretty small creatures and not every square inch of the earth has been discovered and analyzed.

@animalswithtomek4188 3 жыл бұрын

The idea that high specialisation might be the reason for extinction is quite realistic.

@davidanderson_surrey_bc 3 жыл бұрын

Sorta tells you just how vulnerable humans are. We think we're an immortal species because we're so "adaptable". Right. One good EMP or super solar flare or 6-mile asteroid and there goes 95% of our technology. Ten thousand years ago, our ancestors could tough it out in sub-glacial conditions with just a couple of fur wrappings, a sharp stick, and a piece of flint. Now we're so flabby, slow, stupid, and disconnected from the natural environment, and have conflated our population to such domineering numbers, you can be sure the collapse of humanity will rival that of the dinosaurs. Who knows? Maybe in 25 million years some new intelligent species entering its own industrial epoch will be using OUR liquified remains for fossil fuel.

@tomcollierblognation136 3 жыл бұрын

It’s what has led to the extinction of most species

@crazydave9735 3 жыл бұрын

It's happened multiple times in history

@juanausensi499 3 жыл бұрын

@@davidanderson_surrey_bc You're half right. Surely a event of that magnitude will cause the deaths of billions and the total destruction of our modern way of living, but... that's not total extinction. There is still people in the world that lives without a hint of modern technology, so humans as a species are pretty safe for that kind of cataclism.

@aaronbeaupre909 3 жыл бұрын

"Where'd the hell ants go?" In the ground, duh.

@victorunbea8451 3 жыл бұрын

Where the hell did the hell ants go?

@orangeSoda35 3 жыл бұрын

So the sterile ants never had their own offspring and became ant aunts.

@SuperFlamingTomato 3 жыл бұрын

Yep! Generally speaking, all ants, and some bees and wasps (honey bees and stingless bees for example) are eusocial, and therefore the only reproductive of the colony is the queen and any of the males, or drones. This is because the worker caste develops such that the ovaries aren't as large and they don't develop the canals capable of mating. Workers can therefore not produce diploid (female) offspring, but they can produce male offspring on occasion (as males in Hymenoptera, which are bees, wasps and ants, are actually diploid). Most of the time male offspring born from anybody but the queen are killed though. There is some exceptions, for example there is a parasitic subspecies of honey bee in south Africa that can produce thelytokously, essentially cloning itself to create another female that can also clone itself, but for the most part only the queens are capable of laying eggs.

@karlbarks2219 3 жыл бұрын

Brits won't get this joke.

@jozz2248 3 жыл бұрын

Double thumbs up

@jozz2248 3 жыл бұрын

For the well worded science joke and the informational response 😁

@otherpatrickgill 3 жыл бұрын

that only really works in the US and Canada - in other countries the two words have different pronunciations

@jesper112183 3 жыл бұрын

As a person who's been fascinated with insects their entire life, The idea of hell ants just blows my mind

@astick5249 3 жыл бұрын

but them theres still living arthropods with that same setup thats blowing my mind

@shgds 3 жыл бұрын

HELL ANT ARENT DEADV I SAW ONE AS KID

@serpentmaster1323 3 жыл бұрын

Same here! For instance, if your solid definition of dragon includes a quadruped with wings- six limbs or greater, arthropoda is the place to look.

@nicholaslewis8594 3 жыл бұрын

Chicken or you misidentified another species of ants.

@ayanlethesomali7357 Жыл бұрын

Why tho

@bjarnes.4423 3 жыл бұрын

Thinking of Kurzgesagt, Ant Wars in the Cretaceous must have been intense!

@firesandflowers 3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the exact same thing!

@sheepboy2560 3 жыл бұрын

where's episode 3?! 😭

@fluidcultist2591 3 жыл бұрын

I thought this was the final episode 😭

@KalaSemana 3 жыл бұрын

Once upon a time, there are Great Ant Wars.. the factions include Hell Ants, Heavenly Ants, Beast Ants, Wizard Ants, and (Regular) Ants.

@fluidcultist2591 3 жыл бұрын

@@KalaSemana but that all changed when the fire ants attacked

@tantibusdraws6165 3 жыл бұрын

Every prehistoric cartoon ever: Anything prehistoric had saber teeth. Me: That’s silly PBS Eons: In the past ants had horns. Me: .......

@Asdf-wf6en 3 жыл бұрын

imagine if ants were around during the carboniferous

@1stdaybreaker707 3 жыл бұрын

I don’t wanna...

@himitsu_tokusketch 3 жыл бұрын

*MEGA ANT*

@sion8 3 жыл бұрын

So 1950s sci-fi?

@jivejunior8753 3 жыл бұрын

Their advanced eusociality would give them basically no competition on land. Evolution of life on Earth would be changed forever.

@himitsu_tokusketch 3 жыл бұрын

@@sion8 *THEM*

@ladysilverwynde 3 жыл бұрын

Plot twist: hell ants didn't go extinct. They simply became fire ants.

@KalaSemana 3 жыл бұрын

So.. they're evolved.. but backwards?

@Bubba22able 3 жыл бұрын

@@KalaSemana actually, fire ants are among the most successful species in history.

@KalaSemana 3 жыл бұрын

@@Bubba22able Well, evolution is about survival of the fittest, not the chaddest.

@sumreensultana1860 3 жыл бұрын

Hehehe welcome to plotlania

@user-yj4qz5lo6k 3 жыл бұрын

Modern ants do not always live in huge colonies, primitive ants similar in behavior to “Hell ants” still exist such as Nothomyrmecia and Harpegnathos

@krankarvolund7771 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's what I was thinking during the all video, "why don't you talk about the most basal ants that live today, in small colonies, with little differenciated castes? That ressemle a lot the hell ants...." XD

@muhamadsayyidabidin3906 3 жыл бұрын

@@krankarvolund7771 I also patiently waiting her to mention about basal ant like bulldog ant that live in small colony, hunt with eyesight rather than pheromone, the worker is actually fertile, etc.

@bronhaller 3 жыл бұрын

Myrmecia is my favourite genus!

@user-yj4qz5lo6k 3 жыл бұрын

@@bronhaller They sure are neat, I’m current keeping a queen of Myrmecia nigrocincta, very primitive they can even walk on your hand, jump distances ~3cm and observe you with their large eyes.

@user-yj4qz5lo6k 3 жыл бұрын

@@muhamadsayyidabidin3906 Myrmecia workers are not always fertile but they do indeed have ovaries so they can actually become fertile, it’s been studied in Myrmecia pyriformis where workers can become gamergates (fertile workers) often after the death of their queen. Some Myrmecia colonies do actually have pretty big colonies too but their behavior as you said is still super primitive.

@theraptorore1785 3 жыл бұрын

Everybody gangster till the ants get that big

@TruculentSheep 3 жыл бұрын

It's the resulting ant-eaters that worry me.

@user-yj4qz5lo6k 3 жыл бұрын

Go to Australia, bull ants are of similar behavior and size 🤣

@robgraham5697 3 жыл бұрын

The hell ants remind me of Australia's bulldog ants. Small colonies and deadly hunters. You might consider an episode on those.

@TragoudistrosMPH 3 жыл бұрын

Only Eons could cheer me up with... "Hell Ants " lol

@Leomoon101 3 жыл бұрын

Had I seen those Hell Ants today, I would have been like "HELL NO!"

@Sciencerely 3 жыл бұрын

I guess you could say these ants are... ant-ique I know right?

@notaidiot8701 3 жыл бұрын

Joke was so bad you got the channel to like your comment

@arthurheine5631 3 жыл бұрын

And the way those jaws curve up is quite... eleg-ant

@needfoolthings 3 жыл бұрын

All these sharp pokes and edges make me feel all antsy.

@w0tch 3 жыл бұрын

Their tusks should make them be called hell-eph-ants

@blueblaze27 3 жыл бұрын

I ANTicipate that there will be a lot more puns in this thread

@Birdman32 3 жыл бұрын

“Why aren’t eusocial?” I don’t have an ANTswer for that

@likebutton8656 3 жыл бұрын

This channel is a jewel to me. One of the best on KZfaq. Thanks for your hard work PBS 😊

@semaj_5022 3 жыл бұрын

So interesting. I wonder, since the jaw-horn combo seems pretty useful for grabbing and holding on to prey, maybe the ants left their small colonies to go on solo hunting trips, trapping and carrying their prey back to the nest? It's such an odd adaptation.

@reitheist 3 жыл бұрын

"Hamilton's Rule of Kin Selection" def sounds like something I'd see on tumblr in 2016

@sabotabby3372 3 жыл бұрын

"The animal species, in which individual struggle has been reduced to its narrowest limits, and the practice of mutual aid has attained the greatest development, are invariably the most numerous, the most prosperous, and the most open to further progress." ~Pyotr Kropotkin, Zoologist and the father of Anarchism

@Shalometh 3 жыл бұрын

😂

@cheaterman49 3 жыл бұрын

lol, in a Crusader Kings 2 guide? xD

@josiebianchi3481 3 жыл бұрын

not to be confused with Jefferson's Rule of Miku Binder, of course

@misterbadguy7325 3 жыл бұрын

@@cheaterman49 The "kin" subculture basically refers to people who claim to be carrying the spirit of something else. It's weird and complicated and tends to crop up in the more "terminally online" sectors of the internet.

@kennethsatria6607 3 жыл бұрын

"This is the vanguard of an ominous killing machine, behind them is an army of half a million others, marching through the forest stripping its prey to the bone..."

@jamesabernethy7896 3 жыл бұрын

really love these PBS Eons videos. Short, informative and so relaxing to watch.. Great work by all involved.

@arthurheine5631 3 жыл бұрын

I wait all week for these episodes! It's my substitute to Animal Planet

@keithfaulkner6319 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, which seems to have gone all worthless reality programming as everyone else.

@anthonyyang2738 3 жыл бұрын

One of the best channels on youtube by FAR

@hostronic 3 жыл бұрын

Would love to see more videos on prehistoric flora and how plants have evolved over time.

@kyrab7914 Жыл бұрын

Oooo yes, follow one lineage through time!

@kelzuya 3 жыл бұрын

"an ancient ancestor of cocroaches" Go get em Hell ants!

@keithfaulkner6319 3 жыл бұрын

See if the hell ants had done a better job we wouldn't have cockroaches today!

@josiebianchi3481 3 жыл бұрын

PBS Eons: "Reign of the Hell Ants" Me: "im sorry the WHAT NOW"

@zacharyforbes6086 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this episode! I have been curious about ant evolution for a long time

@TheUltraGamer98 3 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love how much we can learn and speculate only from fossils , bones and in this case two insects trapped in amber

@Themanwithnoscreenname 3 жыл бұрын

"Where'd the Hell Ants go?" In my kitchen cupboards, that's where the Hell they went.

@himitsu_tokusketch 3 жыл бұрын

*click EEEEEEEYYYYY

@expneperien 3 жыл бұрын

i love all those strange creatures of the past

@satelitemikedatapro2498 3 жыл бұрын

This channel is awesome. You learn a lot in a short amount of time.

@MelancholyCrypto 3 жыл бұрын

Always a pleasure to see PBS Eons posted something new.

@tomasn3 3 жыл бұрын

This goes for all the episodes you’ve produced: I LOVE THEM! This is easily one of the best channels on KZfaq. True, informative and always interesting. Thanks 🙏🏻

@QUBIQUBED 2 жыл бұрын

It's an entire studio. Callie just narrates

@tomasn3 2 жыл бұрын

@@QUBIQUBED yes I’m well aware. You can mean one or many persons.

@victorquadros1428 3 жыл бұрын

Could you guys do an episode on the ethics and history of paleontology? I know of the extensive history regarding colonial fossil collecting and artifact appropriation, so I was wondering if there could be a video (or maybe video series) about the modern ethics of fossil/artifact collecting and how museums and other cultural institutions can promote and protect the interests of other cultures while still pursuing the scientific studies of paleontology and archaeology?

@bentilbury2002 3 жыл бұрын

It's a worthy subject, but I suspect it would end up being easily the least watched thing on this channel. It's an internal ethical issue and not something the general viewer will find interesting.

@MossyMozart Жыл бұрын

They have a bit at the end of nearly every video about the ethics of appropriated specimens and the origins of the specimens discussed in the video. In this video, though, there is an explanation of the use of Burmese amber in the post pinned to the top of the comments. They are well aware of this topic and have addressed it in every video I have watched with research and specimens snatched from colonized and tribal lands. But perhaps a brief video would help underscore the topic for people who don't read the disclaimers.

@MossyMozart Жыл бұрын

@@bentilbury2002 - This IS PBS. They are not interested in making a profit.

@SiriProject 3 жыл бұрын

The specimen looks incredibly well preserved! Could you get a full adn sequence from that?

@abdourahmanmahdi1544 3 жыл бұрын

In LeBron's words: "Its about damn time"

@Jegrygerfede 3 жыл бұрын

Omg I love ants!! This is my favorite episode.

@vladimirlagos2688 3 жыл бұрын

I really wouldn't mind seeing an animated reconstruction of how those jaws worked, because I am having a hard time figuring out how they consumed their prey.

@davidanderson_surrey_bc 3 жыл бұрын

With relish, one supposes. Unless they had a tendency to experience poor digestion, in which case they always carried around a roll of -- wait for it.... ....ant-acids.

@bronhaller 3 жыл бұрын

Could it be that the mandible orientation was not as effective, so they were eventually out-competed?

@pokoirlyase5931 3 жыл бұрын

20 million years is still one hell of effectiveness (no pun intended)

@AndrewHelgeCox 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting thought: evolution may have found a local maxima there which it couldn’t turn around from.

@Hei1Bao4 3 жыл бұрын

It made me think about the mammals that have also gone extinct which used a similar hunting method such as the saber toothed tiger, etc. and wooly mammoth from before the Quaternary extinction event.

@romanmeneghinister1584 3 жыл бұрын

Ants are incredibly interesting and I think it's is important to note that modern ants include species that are more like a basal wasp ancestor than other ants. Colony size depends on the niche occupied by a a colony and on the colony lifecycle. I think that hell ant foragers being less common in amber than other species could indicate that they occupy a niche or lifestyle that has a lower chance of foragers coming in contact with resin

@antsonarock Жыл бұрын

Possible lone hunting or subterranean ....

@TomsWhip 3 жыл бұрын

Richard Dawkin's 'The Selfish Gene' helped explain a lot of Ant behavior to me

@TheSchnano 3 жыл бұрын

Whenever I see insect videos on this channel, I wonder how spiders evolved and what that fossil record looks like. I'd like to learn more about that

@atalpande836 3 жыл бұрын

So glad that you guys did another video on insects!!!!! Was waiting for one for ages. Would be great to see a video on wasps someday. Maybe that'll help clean their bad reputation among the general public!!!!

@gamingrootz4411 3 жыл бұрын

Good to see an episodes on ants, know very little about ant evolution, thank you for the vid :)

@ScottHebert604 3 жыл бұрын

Guys I've received a package from Satan and I can't wait to show you this flaming skull terrarium. Guys I can't wait to show you this brand new colony. Welcome to the AC Family.

@shgds 3 жыл бұрын

@Eastern fence Lizard ayo??

@davidanderson_surrey_bc 3 жыл бұрын

The devil you say!

@kiranr938 3 жыл бұрын

@Eastern fence Lizard lmao

@winterhat7744 3 жыл бұрын

All the uncultured peanuts: *D E V I L*

@Uberkatze- 3 жыл бұрын

a new video right before going to sleep 😪. thanks eons 😊👍

@glenngilbert7389 2 жыл бұрын

I love the insights that this channel provides, for the most obscure extinct species

@gabrielsilvapires5375 3 жыл бұрын

Hi, I was wondering if you guys had already done a video about the first insects that came to land because I couldn't find it.

@datraptor2506 3 жыл бұрын

Eons uploads a new video 🙂 It’s about insects 😀 It’s 11 minutes long😃 Callie is narrating 😁

@desiderata8811 3 жыл бұрын

I’d love to know more about evolution of plants. What were the first plants on land ? Where did they come from ?

@CrYDAM1987 3 жыл бұрын

Ive waited SOO long for an ANT related video

@Nikita35485 3 жыл бұрын

Like always great thanks to your team.

@WaddyMuters 3 жыл бұрын

Isn’t the point that ants care for the children of others a moot point since all ants are basically siblings so they are technically even closer related to the larvae then they ever could be to their own offspring.

@krankarvolund7771 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think that natural selection in ants colonies is not really on individuals but on colonies themselves ^^

@cravidana1182 3 жыл бұрын

I missed eons so much 😭😭😭.

@jasonray9452 3 жыл бұрын

What is the weirdest creature you have ever heard of

@josegaleano1530 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent program thank you

@scratchthief 3 жыл бұрын

Just finished my personal statement for Uni, I even mentioned this magnificent channel and how much I watch it! Wish me luck! 🤞

@lewisleslie2821 3 жыл бұрын

Good luck dude! I hope you study something that fascinates you!

@scratchthief 3 жыл бұрын

@@lewisleslie2821 Thanks man!! And so far I've gotten an offer to study Paleontology (my dream!!) and Environmental Earth Science :)

@jesper112183 3 жыл бұрын

5:28 looks like at least one of the individuals within the amber is an ant that resembles modern ants

@Nick-tx2fl 3 жыл бұрын

1:14 Those ants are farming aphids (the little green bugs you can see if you look close). If you grow peppers and tomatoes you'll sometimes get these little critters. They suck your plants dry and they poop out a sticky sugary substance that ants like. Ants, being the incredible life form that they are, have figured out they can farm aphids to collect more of their poop. They'll carry the young to various parts of your plants or even across your garden bed to other plants. It's rather remarkable, and quite annoying because when left unchecked aphids can kill your plants and limit your yields!

@scottlee9373 3 жыл бұрын

If I keep watching your videos, I might just know more than I did'nt when I was born! Thanks!

@avalanchas336 3 жыл бұрын

- "we're still trying to figure out why they're gone" - cause it's better that way?! :D

@Pejin8264 3 жыл бұрын

hell ants, wow that's a name lol

@StoryToGo 3 жыл бұрын

Such fascinating creatures. Love watching their social systems at play.

@Viatoreptil 3 жыл бұрын

Hell ants?! I know I've said this more than once but I love it when there's an episode on a taxonomic group that I never heard of, before! Now I'm off to search for any more visuals and scientific literature on the jaw mechanics of those Hyphydrus elegans beetles.

@INFNTRX_AERO 3 жыл бұрын

Yes. "Where the hell ants go?"

@ANKITYADAV-nv9wv 3 жыл бұрын

2:50 *screams in Hindi*

@ZentaBon 3 жыл бұрын

This is a hell of an episode!

@joetrujillo6868 3 жыл бұрын

You always got great videos 😊

@ethanwilliamson8949 3 жыл бұрын

Antswers to questions I didn’t even know I had...

@sanguillotine 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure they’re called chimera ants.

@user-yj4qz5lo6k 3 жыл бұрын

Common names vary depending what ever someone chooses to call them, only the Latin/binomial names are solid

@sanguillotine 3 жыл бұрын

@@user-yj4qz5lo6k it’s an anime reference

@cintronproductions9430 3 жыл бұрын

Why not chimaerants?

@Kuwagumo 3 жыл бұрын

@@sanguillotine HxH, right? Lol

@sanguillotine 3 жыл бұрын

@@Kuwagumo yes

@Z_732 3 жыл бұрын

Very cool! Thanks for the info!

@UrbanDanceLegends 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent as always!

@alexandercolefield9523 3 жыл бұрын

the horn reminds me of the parasitic mind control fungus on ants

@rileykortemusic 3 жыл бұрын

Probably in the Amazon somewhere that’s where they always are

@tomnekuda3818 3 жыл бұрын

Really great program!

@auroraborealis1060 3 жыл бұрын

Can you guys do more videos on human evolution? I find it so facinating!

@addish5022 3 жыл бұрын

Some modern ants also do not live in large eusocial colonies like Nothomyrmecia so this adaptation hasn’t entirely died out. It only became rarer as they were outcompeted by eusocial ants with larger, more specialized colonies.

@Rubrickety 3 жыл бұрын

Nice try, attempting to convince me that 1995 was 25 years ago...

@DanCooper404 3 жыл бұрын

No, it was 26.

@thierryploum5923 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for another great documentary, this time on hell ants and ants, presented in a way to arouse our interest, and no wonder: it is interesting to look at animal societies to see how they manage to get things right for themselves! Plus they've been around for so long we'll need tips for ourselves although at the moment we are making a mess of things as a species...Furthermore, I am fascinated how older discoveries are reevaluated by more recent knowledge to shed new light on them.

@Articulate99 2 жыл бұрын

Always interesting, thank you.

@thunderflare59 3 жыл бұрын

Hell ants are like a Pokémon design that went horribly wrong.

@dynamosaurusimperious6341 3 жыл бұрын

99 million ago god: *so what could i do?* PBS EON angel: *make a demon ant* God: *HELL YEAH,TIME TO MAKE SOME DEMONS OF MY OWN.*

@bloodhunter4628 3 жыл бұрын

My guess is that hell ants formed small colonies in which they rarely relied on each other for foraging and did hunting parties on their own, similar to bull ants. I assume this b/c bull ants r relatively closer to wasp than most other ant species. Maybe what happened is since they didn’t reinforce each other more social ants were easily able to overwhelm them with their greater numbers and their vertical jaws gave em a harder time in combat compared to horizontal jaws.