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[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 61 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

we conservatively estimate 20 × 10^15 (20 quadrillion) ants on Earth, with a total biomass of 12 megatons of dry carbon. This exceeds the combined biomass of wild birds and mammals and equals 20% of human biomass. -- source

If there's a lot of something, we mammals are going to learn how to eat it.

Exactly. The ants were doing a lot more than existing

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