New study overturns popular theory on evolution of termite size - EurekAlert

Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University have completed a comprehensive analysis of the head width of over 1500 modern and fossilized species of termites and determined that their size isn’t shrinking at a geologica…
image: Termites are a type of cockroach that split from their sister cockroach group around 150-170 million years ago. Previous research suggested that, after this split, they very gradually got smal… [+5341 chars] Read More