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Sometimes a fossils are like photographs. These ants preserved in the Green River seem like they could come alive and walk right out of the stone.
Most fossils of ants are found in amber, due to their small size, sedimentary fossils must have exceptional fine grain detail to make ants recognizable.
The first image is from University of Colorado collection.
https://fossilinsects.colorado.edu/
The second image I've been trying to track down-- I don't know where it is, but it is from Green River.
That first fossil is so beautiful I could cry. Look at her eye! what did she see in the Eocene? This at the dawn of the Age of the Ants... did she know her kind would inherit the whole world?