Space Daily September 07, 2026 • 11:45

200 million evenly spaced termite mounds cover a region of northeastern Brazil roughly the size of Great Britain — some are 4,000 years old, and they aren't nests at all but dirt excavated from a vast network of tunnels hidden underneath - Space Daily

Beneath a gridded landscape of 200 million earthen cones lies evidence of termite engineering so vast and ancient that humans walked past it for millennia without understanding what they were looking at.

Two hundred million cones of red dirt, spaced out like a car park grid, and for four thousand years almost nobody bothered asking what they were for.
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200 million evenly spaced termite mounds cover a region of northeastern Brazil roughly the size of Great Britain — some are 4,000 years old, and they aren't nests at all but dirt excavated from a vast network of tunnels hidden underneath - Space Daily

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