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Not the Humans, Ants colonizing the world
Jul 3 2009, Andrew

A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered.

Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to fight one another.

The...

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