 There's a surprise hiding in this scientific paper. Turn the pages and... There's ants inside. Big ones. But don't panic. These ants are at a new frontier for scientific papers. An augmented reality app used to describe brand new species. The story begins over 7,000 kilometres away from Okinawa on the islands of Fiji. They're a place that's home to a wealth of biodiversity. And an OIST team uncovered six species of trap-jaw ants that were previously unknown to science. These ants, they've got a special mousetrap-like mechanism in their jaws that they use to catch prey. And these six species in particular are interesting because they're from Fiji, where they are only present on this remote island group in the Pacific. And thus they're very threatened by climate change and habitat degradation. And so they're of a lot of interest to us. The original inspiration for this paper came because we saw new augmented reality applications, for example, for video games becoming very popular. And we thought, wow, this could really be an interesting way to present species that are out there that are usually really difficult for normal people to access and to see. The process started traditionally with collected specimens. But then things got high tech. We use 3D x-ray scanning to take an image of the specimen and we can use that image to blow it up in incredible detail. Preserved in high-resolution 3D, this brings the old methods of specimen description right up to date. Instead of having to travel to different museums to examine a specimen, we can send this model around the world. Everyone can access it and scientists can collaborate over long distances much faster and much easier. But they didn't stop there. Using augmented reality, the team were able to use the pattern of their printed paper as a link, like a QR code, allowing mobile devices to bring the ants everywhere. Named after characters from the hit book and movie Ready Player One, these virtual ants have leapt from the forests of Fiji right onto your phone. And they could show the future for much more than biology. One exciting thing about this is that down the line we can use this sort of technology to highlight any kind of scientific results, not just ants or even new species we discover. But any kind of data and visualization can be put into a 3D environment and people can really interact with it in new ways and I think see things a little bit differently.