Ant

Journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published the work.

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According to experts, there are 20,000,000,000,000,000 ants

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2.5 million ants for every person alive today.

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The amount is "unimaginable," according to the study's chief author

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Patrick Schultheiss, who said as much in an interview

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For instance, Schultheiss claimed that "we just cannot visualise 20 quadrillion ants in one mound

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It just does not work

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It just does noIn an effort to estimate the number of ants on the planett work

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experts indicated that if all of them were dug out from the earth and dried up

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