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His mother, father and brothers were entombed by the falling masonry.

Now, researchers have identified antennae in ancient ants entombed in amber that have the same microscopic, hairlike structures modern ants use to pick up chemical cues, the scientists report today in Science Advances.

After its death around 67 million years ago, it was entombed in the Hell Creek Formation, a popular paleontology playground that spans Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas.

The space feels somewhere between a crypt and a cathedral, featuring paintings and bronze sculptures of reclining Black bodies, spread out in repose or entombed like corpses, that appear to glow from within.

Eventually, the objects sank, hidden and entombed, in more than six feet of oozing peat and silt.