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Mammals have evolved into ant eaters 12 times since the dinosaur age,study finds (phys.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Tasty barely has anything to do with it, they should stop being the most common animal on the planet by like a factor of 8.

The total biomass of Earth's ant population is estimated at around 12 megatons, that's a fucking lot. I'm told this exceeds the total combined biomass of all wild birds and non-human mammals, and matches about 20% of total human biomass.

If you put all the creatures of the Earth in a bag and pulled one out at random, you're about 50% likely to pull an ant.

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

If we can get them all in one area, we should be able to pull the Earth out of orbit.