Frankenstein Ants

[Jangler]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8996395/Frankenstein-ants-created-by-scientists.html

The monster ants, which use their size to protect the entrance to their nests, are a throwback to their ancestors that lived millions of years ago.

Supersoldier ants can be born naturally but are rare. They breed in the deserts of American and Mexico where they have evolved to protect their colony from invading ants.

But the man-made specimens were created from ordinary Pheidole morrisi ants, which contain the genetic tools necessary to develop into supersoldier ants.

Scientists in Canada used a special hormone on the larvae of ordinary worker ants to create the monster ants.

Authors Dr Rajendhran Rajakumar, from McGill University, Canada, and colleagues wrote: "We uncovered an ancestral development potential to produce a novel supersoldier subcaste that has been retained throughout a hyperdiverse ant genus that evolved 35 to 60 million years ago."

Bees and ants...something is telling me all the end world predictions are wrong.

[sharkkiller]

Frankantstein?

[Jangler]

yeah, some people use the name wrong. scientists...amirite?

[jb_online]

Fug Raid... you're going to need a shotgun to kill those bad boys.

[dimbee]

I think the bottom of my boot will suffice just fine.

[Guest Irv]

instead of curing diseases and figuring out space travel scientist are making mutant ants? just fuging great.

[jasonluckydog]

I want one!! I will love it and he will love me.