Cool new ant species discovered. More info at Nature site:
It is so new, and so bizarre, that uber-naturalist E. O. Wilson has christened it “the ant from Mars”. Martialis heureka, a native of the Brazilian Amazon, is the founding member of a new subfamily of ants. It adds a new branch to the ant family tree which split off from the others extremely early in the family’s evolution. From The ant from Mars : Nature News