Ant queen frozen in time: New ant species found in Dominican amber‎

A study by Dr. Gianpiero Fiorentino and his colleagues, published in the Journal of Paleontology, describes the identification of a new species of ant, Hypoponera electrocacica, belonging to the genus Hypoponera and representing the first occurrence of this genus in the fossil record of the Western Hemisphere, confirming the long-suspected presence of the genus in the Caribbean Miocene.