American botanist Roy Funch sits on top of a giant termite mound near Palmeiras, Brazil, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. After years of failing to garner wider interest on the mounds, Funch's chance meeting ...

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Scientists have discovered 8-foot high, 4,000-year-old termite mounds in the Amazon. The piles of earth, which are as old as the pyramids, cover an area bigger than Britain and are visible from space.

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PALMEIRAS, Brazil – Roy Funch, an American botanist who has lived and worked in Brazil's hardscrabble northeast for decades, long looked at huge cone-shaped mounds of mud in the distance and wonder.