spoiler spoiler some bunch of afrikkaner hillbilly type be out in the desert look for diamond when they find a hard mound in the middle of a sandy desert area . spoiler represent the dumb one start hit the mound with a pick and and crack it open . then he look into the hole and stick his head in and surprise . something eat him . the other two dimwit be not see alive again . scott bairstow look like a pizza delivery boy but he play some kind of expert scientist with a medical degree ( which mean he should be about 35 year old and minimum ) . bairstow be suppose to join camp c and help them find diamond . the truck that pick up bairstow to take him to camp c have a handful of the kind of weirdoes that usually populate movie like pitch black the thing etc . the truck happen to drive across the first truck and they decide to investigate ( how come that truck do not see the other truck when they be drive to pick up bairstow and since they be travel the same road . ) . so they find the eaten body and and there be some decent special effect relate to bone with little bit of flesh on them . the main lunatic in the group and karl and decides that they must find the killer . so the truck drive around in the desert follow some track and and eventually it have an electrical short and the crew be stick in the desert . the dumb guy in this group have pick up a bunch of bone use his jacket to carry them around . when he take a nap ( wear the same jacket ) the creature eat him alive and and another guy run over and stick his arm into the goo and that dummy lose his arm too . sound excite so far and except that a few minute later and dr. bairstow realize that the creature be really hundred of thousand of ant who be use the bone to hold each other together so they can travel to a new hive ( because the miner crack open the old hive ) . now and last time i check and ant could move around on their own and without have to kill people in order to use the bone for structure . if all they need be something hard and they could have put a bunch of stick together and use those to create a form . the whole story be really and really dumb and and the ant explanation be the only one give . the rest of the movie be just about the group get kill off until they find the new ant nest and and kill the ant brain ( sort of ) and and the hundred of thousand of ant then walk away on their own itty bitty foot . there be a spare ant brain find ( off camera ) and send back for analysis thus create a reason for a sequel .