The scientists returned to the bunker two years later to view the ants and discovered it had grown despite no available food source or heat or even light. The team estimated there may have been as many as one million ants now living in the abandoned bunker.
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Attack of the Cannibal Ants – One Million have escaped Soviet-era bunker
November 5, 2019
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