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by mbil 419 days ago
Humans aren’t the largest biomass
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Relevant paper: The biomass distribution on Earth

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1711842115

I saw a good 3D visualization of this data using a customized version of Minecraft:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXDZ2LTTKUE&t=505s

Yeah, that sounded wrong to me. We punch pretty high for a single species though:

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/08/total-biomass-weight...