{"id":31777,"date":"2022-09-21T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/20-quadrillion-ants-on-earth#id32340"},"modified":"2022-09-21T16:48:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T16:48:00","slug":"scientists-estimate-the-total-mass-of-ants-on-earth-at-about-12-megatons-of-dry-carbon-or-nearly-20-quadrillion-ants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/scientists-estimate-the-total-mass-of-ants-on-earth-at-about-12-megatons-of-dry-carbon-or-nearly-20-quadrillion-ants\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists estimate the total mass of ants on Earth at about 12 megatons of dry carbon, or nearly 20 quadrillion ants."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><figcaption>\n<p>          Scientists estimate the total mass of ants on Earth at about 12 megatons of dry carbon, or nearly 20 quadrillion ants.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/20-quadrillion-ants-live-earth-25-million-per-human-2022-9\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; Business Insider<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/20-quadrillion-ants-on-earth\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>          Scientists estimate the total mass of ants on Earth at about 12 megatons of dry carbon, or nearly 20 quadrillion ants.<\/p>\n<p>    &#x21A9;&#xFE0E; Business Insider<\/p>\n<p>  V&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31778,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31777\/revisions\/31778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}