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Truth of it’s the opposite. Even now general estimates put insect and fish biomass at significantly eclipsing mammal biomass. Insects might be small, but there are so many of them that it doesn’t matter.


There's a species of small fish in the deep ocean that may have as many as a quadrillion individuals.


Indeed. Insects, then fish, then everything else, per https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/humans-make-110000...


> Insects, then fish, then everything else,

That is not how I read your source. It seems to be plants, then bacteria, then everything else.




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