A vast landscape of termite mounds that predate ancient Rome have been discovered in northeastern Brazil. Scientists estimate there are approximately 200 million mounds 2.5 meters (8.2 feet) high ...

Questions: Termite mounds are important sources of local-scale soil heterogeneity and thereby affect savanna vegetation. Studies contrasting mound and savanna vegetation usually neglect variation ...

Scientists in South Africa have been stunned to discover that termite mounds that are still inhabited in an arid region of the country are more than 30,000 years old, meaning they are the oldest known ...

In the rain-starved deserts of coastal Peru, tiny patches surprisingly rich in plant life dot the landscape. Burrowing birds may be responsible, scientists say. Mounds of sand shoveled out by ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Foraging site selection by large herbivores is influenced by multiple factors varying across landscapes and spatial scales. Termite mounds ...

Giant earthworms that can grow to be as long as three feet are responsible for strange mounds of soil found in the wetlands of Venezuela and Colombia, scientists report in the journal PLOS ONE. The ...

Walker's map is now in the Smithsonian's archives. In an 1873 report, he described relics he'd found, including "immense quantities of broken pottery." Smithsonian Archives; Alamy In the area around ...

Nowadays, students on the LSU campus pay little attention to the dramatic, sloping grassy backdrop on their path to class: the more than 6,000-year-old North American earthen mounds. The mounds, ...

In this undated photo provided to the Associated Press by Stellenbosch University researcher, Michele Francis, right, and other researchers, pose for a selfie, next to an ancient termite mound in ...