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Madbrad200@lemmy.world to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 years ago

TIL an ant mega-colony exists across 3 continents and is thought to contain billions of ants, all of which recognise each other to be from the same colony. The largest part of the colony is in Europe

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TIL an ant mega-colony exists across 3 continents and is thought to contain billions of ants, all of which recognise each other to be from the same colony. The largest part of the colony is in Europe

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  • phx@lemmy.ca
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    I wonder if they have some sort of deep under-sea network that allows access to other continents or if they just recognize a common pheromone etc from their cousins who hitched a boat etc to a new home

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      The latter

  • moistclump@lemmy.world
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    Ants are neat.

  • MrMcMisterson@lemmy.ca
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    This is really cool.

  • Lumidaub@feddit.de
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    The page isn’t redirecting properly

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      https://web.archive.org/web/20230705154253/http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8127000/8127519.stm

      https://archive.is/20131106033132/http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8127000/8127519.stm

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        Man, archive.org keeps surprising me. Thank you!

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    And that is why we need an Ant Man to stop an invasion. /s

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