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Earth harbours 20,000,000,000,000,000 ants – and they weigh more than wild birds and mammals combined

  • Written by Mark Wong, Forrest Fellow, The University of Western Australia
Earth harbours 20,000,000,000,000,000 ants – and they weigh more than wild birds and mammals combinedShutterstock

Have you ever wondered exactly how many ants live on Earth? Possibly not, but it’s certainly a question we’ve asked ourselves.

Our research published today provides an approximate answer. We conservatively estimate our planet harbours about 20 quadrillion ants. That’s 20 thousand million millions, or in numerical...

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