Sentences with phrase «about army ants»

And yet my students always find this puzzling, especially when you talk about army ants being vicious fighters.

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Meanwhile, new technologies allow engineers to dream beyond designing glorified mechanical arms: So - called «swarm bots» work together like army ants to move relatively heavy objects; a fire hose — cum - snake robot can slither across the floor before putting out a blaze; and Nissan is developing an avoidance system to prevent car crashes based on bees — which use their compound eyes to see nearly all the way around themselves while buzzing about, changing direction when they sense something in their path.

While this syndrome is found in every army ant species around the world, scientific papers have postulated that army ants evolved these characteristics multiple times after the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana about 100 million years ago.

Using fossil data and the tools of a genetics detective, a Cornell University entomologist has discovered that these ants come from the same ancestor, because since the reign of the dinosaurs, about 100 million years ago, army ants in essence have not changed a bit.

For those curious about what such a pint - sized hero can achieve, know this: in his first - ever comic appearance, Ant - Man took down several Soviet agents trying to steal his shrinking serum — and triumphed with the help of, yes, an army of ants.

One of his staunch anti-Communist Houston constituents, Joanne Herring (Roberts, The Ant Bully), would be the one to draw attention to Wilson as to the atrocities committed by the Red Army, and moved to do something about it, Wilson began a crusade to get the U.S. behind a plan to thwart the Commies by funneling money into Pakistan, while working out a deal with the Israelis to supply Russian weapons for the Mujahedeen to use against them, thanks to inside information by CIA insider Gust Avrokotos (Hoffman, M: I III).