According to a new study, there are estimated to be 2.5 million times more ants on this planet than people.
In total, that's 20 quadrillion — or 20,000,000,000,000,000 — ants.
Taken together, the total mass of ants on the planet would actually outweigh all of the world’s wild birds and mammals, he added.
Jorge Villalba / Getty Images / iStockphotoAnts can be found in nearly all habitats except for polar regions, according to the study.
A separate study published in April 2020 in the journal Science found that the planet has lost more than one-quarter of its land-dwelling insects in the past 30 years.