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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.
A competitor to crabs
Ant-eating crabs will be the ultimate result of evolution.
anteaters are a step on the path to crab, confirmed
Any explanation for why there was similar convergent evolution toward goofy names? C’mon, numbat, mongoose, sloth bear, aardvark, pangolin, echidna? No way that’s coincidence.
