<story><title>Ants trapped for years in an old bunker</title><url>https://jhr.pensoft.net/article/38972/list/1/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>breadandcrumbel</author><text>saw this comment on Reddit:
&amp;gt;They weren&amp;#x27;t trapped for years. There was a ventilation pipe they were falling down from. That&amp;#x27;s how they got down there. New ones kept falling in all the time, keeping their numbers high. They didn&amp;#x27;t survive for years &amp;quot;because cannibalism&amp;quot; and there is no evidence that any individual ant survived for more than a short time.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ants trapped for years in an old bunker</title><url>https://jhr.pensoft.net/article/38972/list/1/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kevinh</author><text>Previous discussion about the referenced 2016 paper: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=12414676&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=12414676&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>