By: magic-gigapans
Image: Joshua Villalobos, El Paso Community College
License: Creative Commons Non Commercial ⧉

Uploaded: 8 May 2020
Last Updated: 27 May 2020

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Ants are nature’s little miners!! Here is an example how ants have excavated weathered out fusilinids, brachiopods, crinoid stems and coral fragments that were buried in their colony. The fossils are coming from the Permian age Hueco Group limestones.