Earth harbours 20,000,000,000,000,000 ants – and they weigh more than wild birds and mammals combined
- Written by: Mark Wong, Forrest Fellow, The University of Western Australia
Shutterstock Have you ever wondered exactly how many ants live on Earth? Possibly not, but it’s certainly a question we’ve asked ourselves.
Our research published today provides an approximate answer. We conservatively estimate our planet harbours about 20 quadrillion ants. That’s 20 thousand million millions, or in numerical...