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Leafcutter ants don't eat the leaves they carry home in long green columns — they feed the clippings to an underground fungus, and it is the fungus they farm and eat, a practice that predates human agriculture by around 50 million years

Deep beneath the forest floor in Panama, a colony of Atta cephalotes is tending a pale, spongy mass...

SCIENCE July 12, 2026

Leafcutter ants don't eat the leaves they carry home in long green columns — they feed the clippings to an underground fungus, and it is the fungus they farm and eat, a practice that predates human agriculture by around 50 million years

Deep beneath the forest floor in Panama, a colony of Atta cephalotes is tending a pale, spongy mass the size of a soccer ball. Above ground, worker ants...

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Deep beneath the forest floor in Panama, a colony of Atta cephalotes is tending a pale, spongy mass the size of a soccer ball. Above ground, worker ants...

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