The New York Times reported
If life is a numbers game, ants are winning. There are around 20 quadrillion individual ants on Earth (more than two million per human), representing over 15,000 species, according to one estimate. Their omnipresence bolsters their global importance as aerators of soil, recyclers of dead matter and dispersers of seeds.
Read more The Meek Really Did Inherit the Earth, at Least Among Ants – The New York Times
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