The Mysterious Universe of Ants

How many ants do you think there are on the planet? Billions? Trillions? In reality, the answer is much more.

Scientists estimate that there are about ten quadrillion (that's 10,000,000,000,000,000) individual ants alive at any given time.

That's more than a million ants for every human.

It's speculated that the total weight of all the ants in the world is roughly equal to the total weight of all the humans.

Ants are also unbelievably strong, capable of carrying between 10 to 50 times their body weight.

Another fascinating feature is their cooperative nature.

Ant colonies function as superorganisms, meaning the colony itself is like a single entity, with worker ants acting like cells that serve the larger organism.

This unbelievably complex and mysterious social structure has become the subject of many studies and continues to mesmerize scientists to this day..