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World’s oldest termite mounds

June 25 , 2024 5 days 169 0

The world's oldest and active termite mounds have been discovered in Namaqualand of Namibia, dating back 34 000 years.
They are existing since before the last Ice Age when woolly mammoths.
The mounds are inhabited by the southern harvester termite.
The previous oldest inhabited mounds - by a different termite species - were discovered in Brazil.
And they are 4000 years old.