In the 1950s movie "Them!" who or what were "Them"?
"Them!" was a classic Sci-Fi film about monsters, released in 1954. New Mexico State Police troopers discover a little girl in shock, wandering the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Turns out there's a nest of gigantic irradiated ants; they quickly become a national threat when it is discovered a young queen ant and her consorts have escaped to establish a new nest and... you can imagine the rest.
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