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A look inside the bizarre world of one of Earth’s oldest ants A nts make up around 1% of all insects on Earth and live on every continent - that’s a staggering number of individuals. But their success didn’t come peacefully. Much of it was forged through persistent and brutal “ant wars” between hordes of different species. Some “Supercolonies” are even known to reach 20 million members. A large colony is what most people picture when thinking of ants ... whether it be a lon

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The sudden bitter temperature drop this winter is a result of climate change and not fuel or evidence for the climate naysayers – the...