[jmdeon]

I guess the interesting thing is they built and maintained a nest which looked mostly like a colony. The colony's food source being the fresh falling ants you mentioned.

> "In total darkness, they have constructed an earthen mound, which they have maintained all-year-round by moulding it and keeping the nest entrances open," researchers wrote in a study in 2016, noting these ants are "a far cry from a fully functional colony".

[johndhi]

With no queen how could they reproduce down there after the originals died of old age though?

[Rendello]

From the article:

> They were not reproducing, though. Instead, the population was being replenished through sheer accident.

[IAmBroom]

So you're saying the article itself has information about what the article contains?

Fascinating.

[Rendello]

I try not to get my heart rate up.