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Antz in my Pantz

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    we conservatively estimate 20 × 1015 (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.

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    • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Exactly. The ants were doing a lot more than existing

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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      • Saleh@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        12 megatons of dry carbon

        en.wikipedia.org/…/Composition_of_the_human_body

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        Carbon is supposed to make up about 18.5% of the mass of a human body. So 60 megatons divided by 18.5% is 324 megatons.

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  • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Do humans count as 13?

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Whoa. That’s a big fuckin’ ant.

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    • shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Humans are cheating since we’ll eat anything that’s edible, and a lot of things that aren’t supposed to be.

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      • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I just ate a burrito drowned in apricot-habanero hot sauce which I further modified by adding extra habaneros and red thai chilis. I’m pretty sure capsaicin was meant to deter mammals from eating hot peppers.

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      • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Like petroleum. Well, stuff made from it anyway.

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    • TheTurner@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Roasted queen leaf cutter ants?

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      • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Mexican Chicatanas (flying ants).

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  • NorthWestWind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A competitor to crabs

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    • damnedfurry@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Kind of the opposite, looks like evolution is trying desperately to get rid of ants, lol. Possibly replacing them with crabs.

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      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Turn the ants into crabs.

        Crab ants crab ants crab ants crab ants crab ants… And now it reads like a slur

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    • pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ant-eating crabs will be the ultimate result of evolution.

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      • Sphks@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        With ants looking like tiny crabs

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  • Cube6392@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    anteaters are a step on the path to crab, confirmed

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  • BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I guess, they’d have a tendency to look goofy, so they can stick their snouts into ant hills, and then we might’ve named them accordingly?

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  • webp@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbat

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