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Nuclear bunker ants turn to cannibalism

In an abandoned nuclear bunker in western Poland, hundreds of thousands of worker ants that fell inside and were cut off from the main colony survived for years by eating the bodies of their dead.

When researchers visited the bunker in 2016, they described a community of

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