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It will be interesting to see how this might change in the decades to come. Will they find a way to evolve into a "real" colony? Will they find a way to sustain without reliance on "new arrivals"?

Semi-off-topic, those pictures will haunt my dreams.

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There are no queens. Therefore, all the ants are from "outside" and there's no chance for a mutation to develop for this pseudocolony to become a real colony.

eventually the pile of dead ants will be so high that it will reach the top of the vent putting an end to this madness

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