Post B5yITChfCbwHFB4IBU by futurebird@sauropods.win
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(DIR) Post #B5yHqFNHKxgMEbxPcm by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-05-05T01:36:05Z
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There are 22,000 species of ants. It's going to take 60 years, but I'm not stopping. (Please do not think to much about how that's only the number of described ants, and how that number keeps going up and old ants keep getting revised. )
(DIR) Post #B5yI7w9jWtfJqH3aJU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-05-05T01:39:15Z
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Something about the idea of "revising ants" is endlessly amusing to me. They already don't hold still, you don't need to move them around in different families too.
(DIR) Post #B5yIQsZX4vsAEG9lWC by michaelgemar@cosocial.ca
2026-05-05T01:42:38Z
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@futurebird Not stopping…what?(I like to think of a huge warehouse with 22,000 ant habitats, and you walking up to the last one on the final row, placing a queen inside, and saying “It is finally done.”)
(DIR) Post #B5yITChfCbwHFB4IBU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-05-05T01:43:08Z
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@michaelgemar "Not stopping…what?"oh you know...
(DIR) Post #B5yIekGSlLcEW9qgC0 by michaelgemar@cosocial.ca
2026-05-05T01:45:11Z
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@futurebird 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜
(DIR) Post #B5yJKaJKA3DJoD8an2 by wendigo@metalhead.club
2026-05-05T01:52:44Z
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@futurebird I'm fine with it. I've learned so much about ants because of you...
(DIR) Post #B5ySHoAj4GTTW9rndY by llewelly@sauropods.win
2026-05-05T03:33:07Z
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@futurebird 1/2 I blame the agriculture and pesticide industries. They drive 95% of new evolution in insects generally and ants especially. This is why I prefer sauropods and pterosaurs. Extinct groups, no new evolution, and in both cases the majority of species (especially pterosaurs) were never preserved by the fossil record. Both groups combined have less than a thousand species total. True, there are complex taxonomic issues caused by people who named species for teeth, mere fragments