The super-wide clusters of English can be seen from the universe

The termites have built 200 million tall mounds in the Brazilian prairie from thousands of years ago, digging the amount of land equivalent to 4,000.

A giant super-nest spread across large areas of England was built from 3,820 years ago and still exists today, the Independent on November 19 reported. The researchers explored the vast land with 200 million cone mounds in northeast Brazil and sampled 11 locations. Each mound is 2.5 meters high, 9 meters wide at the foot of the mound and covers a total area of ​​230,000 km ² .

However, the mounds are not separate termites but a gathering ground, where the earthworkers and other materials are excavated in the process of creating underground tunnels, used to traverse. forest area in search of food during the millennium.

The mound is close together from above.(Photo: Science Alert).

Conical termites covering an area of ​​230,000 km ² .(Photo: Roy Funch).

This "biological wonder" can be compared to the wonders of the ancient world, according to the authors of the new study, Current Biology. "This is clearly the largest biological technique built by a species . Perhaps the most interesting thing is the extremely long-standing mounds of the age of nearly 4,000 years, similar to the age of the pyramid. " Researcher Roy Funch of Feira de Santana University in Brazil, said.

The termite mounds are mostly obscured by caatinga, carpets with only spikes growing in Brazil. The international team discovered their existence several decades ago when the land was cleared to make pastures.

Sampling results from the oldest termites also date the equivalent of some of the oldest termite nest structures in Africa, while many other termites began to be built about 600 years ago. They form to cope with the drought environment, in which annual leaves fall into an ideal time to gather food, interspersed with long periods of time when food sources become scarce.

"This termite mound is born because termites dig a vast network of tunnels to reach fallen leaves, allowing them to eat safely and directly from the forest floor , " said Professor Stephen Martin, an expert on insects. at Salford University, share. "The amount of digging land masses reached more than 10 km ³ , equivalent to 4,000 Great Pyramids of Giza, ranked among the largest structures built by insects. The amazing thing is today, you can still find wonders. anonymous biologists of this size and large chronology with the residents inside ".

The termites are not the only way to access the tunnel network. The termites come out at night to find prey, using dozens of smaller entrances between each gathering yard. When examining the number of termite mounds flattened in half by the road construction project, Professor Martin and colleagues found that they did not have the complex honeycomb structure found in termites. Instead, each mound consists of a 10cm wide center tunnel, connected to the underground tunnel network and a series of long rooms containing fallen leaves and larvae.