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Scientists discovered the oldest termite mounds on Earth — and they're 34,000 years old
(www.livescience.com)
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If we kill them, do all the other termites turn back into normal ants?
The common ancestor of termites and ants is a lot more distant than you think.
Termites evolved from cockroaches and ants evolved from wasps.
https://www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.php?cmdid=9358
On the other hand, the answer is that the other termites all turn into crabs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
Ah, queen and drone being able to fly is a leftover from wasps?
And yeah, the end of all arthropoda is always crabs.
I am guessing yes. And the formic acid stinger some ants have is a leftover too.
No, they just all die