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What Is Earth's Dominant Species by Mass?

Original: What's Earth's dominant species by mass?

A question is making the rounds online: which species holds the most biomass on Earth? Common candidates raised in the discussion include ants, earthworms, cattle and other livestock, with humans also weighing in surprisingly low relative to plants and arthropods. Readers are debating how biomass should be measured and what the answer says about humanity's impact on the planet.

Why now: The counterintuitive answer to which species dominates Earth by biomass is sparking curiosity and debate about humanity's place in the natural world.

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• What's Earth's dominant species by mass? · surprisetalk · 202

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