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Word: vicinus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Them (Warner) are ants, but not the kind one usually shares a picnic with. Caught in a radioactive fallout from an atomic-test explosion at Alamogordo, a desert colony of Camponotus vicinus has suffered mutation into a race of creatures more than ten feet long. They are discovered by Myrmecologist Edmund Gwenn after two people disappear in the desert and two others are found dead with their carcasses full of formic acid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Monsters | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

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