Australian termites followed similar evolutionary path to humans, study finds

DNA sequencing shows insects crossed oceans then migrated from treetops to the ground to adapt to ancient climate changeA new paper shows that the ancient ancestors of termites found in northern Australia crossed vast distances over oceans, and then followed an evolutionary path similar to humans, migrating from tree-tops to the ground.Mounds sometimes reaching as high as eight metres and housing millions of individual insects are seen in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and far north Q