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Wood ants found living trapped in abandoned nuclear bunker
Original: Living beyond the limits of survival: wood ants trapped in a gigantic pitfall (2016)
Researchers documented a colony of wood ants trapped in an abandoned Cold War nuclear bunker in Poland, cut off from the outside world. With no queens and no way to leave, the ants survived by living beyond the normal limits of survival, scavenging corpses of ants that fell in and sustaining a population in the hundreds of thousands despite conditions that should have been fatal.
Why now: The story resurfaced because it is a striking example of life persisting in seemingly impossible conditions.
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- Living beyond the limits of survival: wood ants trapped in a gigantic pitfall (2016) · hitekker · 182
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