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400,000-year-old fossilized termite nests named after Little Karoo town
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University of Cape Town (UCT) researchers recently named a series of approximately 400,000-year-old fossilized underground nests of an extinct termite species after Calitzdorp, the Little Karoo town near which they were found. In October 2026, the research team returned to the town to donate a poster documenting their discovery to…
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400,000-year-old fossilized termite nests named after Little Karoo town
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