The weight of all ants on Earth is roughly equal to the weight of all humans- aka there are a lot of ants. And can be found everywhere mammals are able to live. So they make sense as a food source
> aka there are a lot of ants This is true
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Mammals Evolved into Ant Eaters 12 Times Since Dinosaur Age, Study Finds
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Re: Mammals Evolved into Ant Eaters 12 Times Since Dinosaur Age, Study Finds
#12A bit like [carcinisation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation) for crustaceans
Re: Mammals Evolved into Ant Eaters 12 Times Since Dinosaur Age, Study Finds
#13A bit like [carcinisation]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation ) for crustaceans
Another one is, believe it or not, trees: https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-th...
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#14Re: Mammals Evolved into Ant Eaters 12 Times Since Dinosaur Age, Study Finds
#15I can see the shear abundance of ants tilting the scale of evolution's nonlinearity.
Reminds me of Mitch Hedberg, ~"[Ants are] great if you're ever really hungry and want to eat 2000 of something."
Re: Mammals Evolved into Ant Eaters 12 Times Since Dinosaur Age, Study Finds
#16Did any anteater dinosaurs exist before that?
Ant eating dinosaurs exist today: https://learnbirdwatching.com/birds-that-eat-ants/
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Crab eating ants. We'll kill the ones that eat us and eat the ones we kill.
Crabs are already quite susceptible to ants, due to ants being small enough to swarm and attack the joints and gaps of the crab's carapace.
What about a crab made out of ants?
Re: Mammals Evolved into Ant Eaters 12 Times Since Dinosaur Age, Study Finds
#18Re: Mammals Evolved into Ant Eaters 12 Times Since Dinosaur Age, Study Finds
#19A bit like [carcinisation]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation ) for crustaceans
Another one is, believe it or not, trees: https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-th...
Trees really aren't a good example of convergent evolution. The evidence tends more toward "all plants have woodiness genes, and sometimes those genes can be activated/deactivated".
Fruits are, though.
Re: Mammals Evolved into Ant Eaters 12 Times Since Dinosaur Age, Study Finds
#20how many times things evolved into sharks?
ichtiozaur, dolphin/orca
anything else?