Ants are pretty much everywhere. There are more than 14,000 different species, spread over every continent except Antarctica, and researchers have estimated that there are more than four quadrillion individual ants on Earth—that’s 4,000,000,000,000,000. But exactly how ants evolved to take over the world is still a mystery.
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Source: Phys.org