I rarely think of the word "awesome" but that's about the only word i can think of right now after reading about this.
200 million mounds all 8 feet or higher built by termites over a 4000 year period. The total amount of material in the mounds is four thousand times that of the material used to build the Great Pyramid. Thus they moved a huge amount of material over time. The breath of the constructions is as large as a big city, maybe larger.
The mounds are dirt dug up by the termites as they create underground tunnels. They are not the normal termite mounds where the insects live inside, they are just a by product of their digging efforts.
It is truly astonishing almost unbelievable what tiny tiny insects can do given enough time.
A termite queen can lay 25 eggs per minute over a period of 50 years. That's over 2.5 million eggs over the life of the insect.
https://earthsky.org/earth/huge-ancient-termite-mounds-brazil-visible-via-satellite
200 million mounds all 8 feet or higher built by termites over a 4000 year period. The total amount of material in the mounds is four thousand times that of the material used to build the Great Pyramid. Thus they moved a huge amount of material over time. The breath of the constructions is as large as a big city, maybe larger.
The mounds are dirt dug up by the termites as they create underground tunnels. They are not the normal termite mounds where the insects live inside, they are just a by product of their digging efforts.
It is truly astonishing almost unbelievable what tiny tiny insects can do given enough time.
A termite queen can lay 25 eggs per minute over a period of 50 years. That's over 2.5 million eggs over the life of the insect.
https://earthsky.org/earth/huge-ancient-termite-mounds-brazil-visible-via-satellite