What do ant bites and stings look like?Each ant sting and bite can look slightly different. However, Gangloff-Kaufmann says ...

These ants had specialised features. Unlike modern ants with laterally moving mandibles, this species possessed mandibles that ran forward parallel to the head and facial projection anterior to ...

According to their analysis, the ant had impressive mandibles (mouth parts) that poked forward, parallel to the shape of the head in front of the eyes, which were likely used to pin down prey.

Its mandibles moved up and down and not side to side, as they do in today's ants. "Currently, many odd mandible shapes can be found in ants, but they usually articulate horizontally," Lepeco said.

Modern ants typically have lateral moving mandibles. Instead, this species had mandibles that ran forward parallel to the head and facial projection closer to its eyes. “Finding such an ...

Unlike modern ants with laterally moving mandibles, this species possessed mandibles that ran forward parallel to the head and facial projection anterior to the eyes, the researchers noted.

Unlike modern ants with laterally moving mandibles, this species possessed mandibles that ran forward parallel to the head and facial projection anterior to the eyes, the researchers noted.

When the fossil was 3D scanned, this revealed other characteristics that identified it as a hell ant. For instance, it had forklift-like mandibles that may have enabled it to skewer other insects.

Unlike modern ants with mandibles that move laterally, this ancient species had mandibles that extended forward parallel to the head, with a facial projection anterior to the eyes — a radically ...

“Other hell ants have been described with odd mandibles, but always as amber specimens.” It’s rare to find insects preserved in rock. Other hell ants from the Cretaceous have been found ...

“We could see incredible structures that we could not see through the photographs, like the mandibles,” he said, referring to the ant’s jaws. The team named the newly discovered species Vulc ...