This one is a couple of years old, but it was new to me.
UC Berkeley spotlighted a kind of ant that uses its incredibly strong jaws to propel itself through the air. The trap-jaw ant closes its mandibles at 78 to 145 miles per hour. That force flings the insect through the air.








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