What is the number of ants on earth and how much do they weigh? For the first time, scientists made a big claim
Hong Kong (Daily Pakistan Online) It has been speculated for a long time that the combined weight of ants.
crawling on earth is much more than the combined weight of all humans, now we finally have an estimate of their number. Hong Kong researchers have estimated that there are 20,000,000,000,000,000 or 20 quadrillion ants crawling all over the earth.
According to the team of researchers, the surprising ubiquity of ants has prompted many naturalists to consider their true numbers on Earth.
but systematic and empirically derived estimates are lacking. Experts compiled data from 489 studies measuring.
the density of ants in different parts of the world and estimated the number at 20 quadrillion.
According to “India Today”, the results of the research were published in the journal.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The team also estimated the combined weight of ants on Earth, which is 12 million tons. The total biomass of wild birds and animals is around 2 million tonnes.
