Stephen Martin noticed large mounds, some 10-feet tall, 30-feet wide, along the side of the road as he drove through a remote part of northeast Brazil. “After 20 minutes, we were still driving through ...

Visit the African savannas in Zimbabwe or Namibia, and you might notice large, towering termite mounds dotted about the landscape—nature’s skyscrapers, if you will. And nature is quite the engineer: ...

Termite mounds typically outlive the colonies that built them, so it was doubly astonishing when thousands of insects were recently discovered existing among tall, dirt monoliths discovered in ...

Scientists have mapped a huge “nation” of more than 200 million connected termite mounds that stretches across 89,000 square miles of northeastern Brazil, with some of the 10-foot-high mounds -- still ...

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 ...

Termite mounds (round patches of short green grass within a matrix of taller, yellower grass) are regularly spaced in a polka-dot configuration due to competition with neighboring termite colonies.

Scientists have discovered 8-foot high, 4,000-year-old termite mounds in the Amazon. The piles of earth, which are as old as the pyramids, cover an area bigger than Britain and are visible from space.

Some 200 million conical termite mounds rise from the ground in northeastern Brazil, each about 2 to 4 meters high and about 9 meters wide, visible on Google Earth. Researchers dated the soil from 11 ...

Stephen J. Martin noticed large mounds, some 10 feet tall, 30 feet wide, along the side of the road as he drove through a remote part of northeast Brazil. “After 20 minutes, we were still driving ...

Termite mounds appear as patches of lush vegetation from the air near Vilanculos, Mozambique. Termite mounds occur in regularly spaced 'polka-dot' patterns due to competition between neighboring ...