Antz in my Pantz

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Exactly. The ants were doing a lot more than existing

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Saleh@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Do humans count as 13?

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Whoa. That’s a big fuckin’ ant.

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  • shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Like petroleum. Well, stuff made from it anyway.

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  • TheTurner@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Roasted queen leaf cutter ants?

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    • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Mexican Chicatanas (flying ants).

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• NorthWestWind@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A competitor to crabs

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  • damnedfurry@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Sphks@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      With ants looking like tiny crabs

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• Cube6392@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  anteaters are a step on the path to crab, confirmed

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• BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbat

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