Ants perfected farming 30 million years ago in the desert

Ants are good at lots of stuff. Carrying food, cutting leaves, biting people, and perhaps least well known: farming fungus. They're so good at farming, in fact, that they had unintentionally domesticated their fungus varietals long before humans got wind of farming. Or existed, for that matter.
Read more: http://www.popsci.com.au/science/nature/ants-perfected-farming-30-million-years-ago-in-the-desert,458251?source=Snapzu