Cannibal ants built a thriving society in abandoned nuclear bunker - and now they’ve escaped

syfy.com ^ | November 4, 2019 | Benjamin Bullard

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

https://jhr.pensoft.net/article/38972/

Believe it or not, here is a link to the research document on this. Document Here in the Journal of Hymenoptra Research

[Mark]

A Hollywood movie in the making.

[stars & stripes forever]

[Billthedrill]

And so it begins...

[relictele]

In the made :)

[stars & stripes forever]

Just what the world needs: super-ants that’ve been battle-tested by the perfect cocktail of nuclear storage, pitch blackness, and the delectable dead bodies of their fallen kin.

[yesthatjallen]

And so it begins...

lol.

Perfect.

[HombreSecreto]

I for one welcome our new insect overlords.

[Kommodor]

That would seem to violate the second law of thermodynamics.

If the ants have figured out how to do this, maybe we should put them in charge of energy research. :P

[BenLurkin]

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[Equine1952]

I’ve seen that and as a youngster I slept with a can of RAID. I’m leaving out the wolfbane, cross, and the silver bullet. Now I’ve moved on. The Demorats will get the full monti. Oh and a small 🐕 for Godzilla

[BipolarBob]

Donner Party ants, just what we need.

[dljordan]

I saw that when I was a kid. Slept with my Mattel Grease gun that night.

[ealgeone]

THEM.

[TangoLimaSierra]

That would seem to violate the second law of thermodynamics.

'Zactly. Came here to say the same.

[VietVet876]

One of my favorite movies as a kid. I loved James Arness with his Thompson and the grizzled old scientist telling him where to hit the ten foot ant to kill it. We lived in SE PA. but used to drive out west to visit relatives near L.A. every year. I loved those dry concrete storm drains after seeing the movie for the first time. And I could make the keening ant cry too which creeped out my cousins.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

It was a good monster movie, wasn’t it? I saw it when I was 9. A few months later, our family took a vacation to California. While we were staying at a trailer park in Los Angeles, I had to walk back to the trailer late at night, and a nearby car made the ant noise with a squeaking power-steering belt or some such. Well over 50 years, and I can still remember the feeling.

[Damifino]

That would seem to violate the second law of thermodynamics.

^^^ yep. The story is fantastic enough in the fact that the colony has found a energy source that the researchers are unable to identify. No need to sensationalize

[thinden]

If they’re cannibal ants there should still be one biggun still in the bunker

[null and void]

About 1980 or so I was in a Costco(?) in southern California, and one of the blowers on the roof was making that sound. I looked up and said Them!

The guy next to me said 1954, James Arness, Ed Gwenn!