Ants

Ants are a diverse and near-ubiquitous group of hymenopteran insects found in most environments on Earth in the Second Carboniferous.

History
Ants as a group evolved from a ground-dwelling wasp ancestor in the late Jurassic or early Cretaceous Period. Their morphology and eusocial lifestyle proved extremely successful, and ants made up a significant amount of the global animal population from that time through the late Anthropocene. While the Sixth Mass Extinction did damage to their populations, especially more specialized species, it did not cause their extinction and more than half of ant species survived the event.

Second Carboniferous conditions allowed ants to grow much larger than before, though most did not increase in size substantially. One notable exception was the Solenopsid population of the Eurasian Mountains, whose individuals grew extremely large and formed a vast supercolony.

Representatives

 * Solenopsids