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Published online 15 September 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1107
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The ant from Mars
The platypus of the ant world amazes entomologists
It is so new, and so bizarre, that uber-naturalist E. O. Wilson has christened it "the ant from Mars".
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A common if little studied mutation or abnormality in drone ants of the Myrmicinae subfamily is marked by an extreme underdevelopment of the rear legs (and wings); this might point to an evolutionary trail.