SOURCE: "Return of a Legend" by Raymond Z. Gallun (Planet Stories, March 1952)

DESCRIPTION: "Several times oxygen was obtained only by lying prone over a teeming colony of the chitinous creatures whose instinct was to roof with a protecting airdome of gluten anything that promised to be food. These Mars ants -- ordinarily to be avoided-- admitted air to the domes they built from their deepest buried tunnels and chambers..." ("Return of a Legend" by Raymond Z. Gallun)

NOTES: Like Digger and the Mars Hogs, the Mars ants live in a freezing cold, airless Mars.

HISTORY: Gallun story reminds me of the film Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) where the stranded astronaut had to burn rocks for oxygen.

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