Some fossilized termite mounds have been discovered dating back millions of years. The oldest inhabited mounds before this study were found in Brazil and are around 4,000 years old.

Termite mounds have been continuously inhabited for 34,000 years Mounds were active since sabre-toothed cats and woolly mammoths roamed the Earth and humans were dabbling in cave painting ...

Trees are invading the open, grassy habitat of the endangered golden-shouldered parrot – giving predators cover to lie in ...

A new study published in the journal Soil Ecology Letters, shows the importance of old termite mounds as habitats for a wide range of insects and other invertebrates in the Bornean tropical ...

The king of the African savanna is not the lion — it is the tiny termite, say ecologists who have found the insect is central to ecosystem productivity.

Some fossilized termite mounds have been discovered dating back millions of years. The oldest inhabited mounds before this study were found in Brazil and are around 4,000 years old.

image: Lead author Jiri Tuma with a Dicuspiditermes termite mound. view more Credit: Philipp O. Hoenle A new study by Dr Tom M. Fayle of Queen Mary University of London, Dr Kalsum M. Yusah of the ...