Way Off facts · 🐜 Life on Earth
How many ants are alive on Earth right now?
20 quadrillion
ants
20,000,000,000,000,000 exactly, give or take
Twenty quadrillion. That's 2.5 million ants for every person — and together they outweigh all wild birds and mammals combined.SOURCEPNAS, 2022
Scale check: 20 quadrillion is roughly seconds in 320 million years.
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