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World’s oldest termite mounds

June 25 , 2024 152 days 329 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.

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