A flying ant with a wingspan half-a-foot long and the body mass of a small bird flew over Canadian soil some 50 million years ago. Scientists are researching the first Canadian specimen, recently found by a resident of Princeton, British Columbia.
Scientists are stumped on how this ant travelled between continents. It was found in Europe, and another fossil from Wyoming was found in 2011.
“This ant and the new fossil from British Columbia are close in age to other Titanomyrma fossils that have been long known in Germany and England,” said Bruce Archibald, one of the Simon Fraser University paleontologists studying the fossil, in a March 6 news release….