Ant Lab | The Fastest Animal on Earth: the Snap-Jaw Ant @AntLab | Uploaded December 2018 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
*Update* This ant's notoriety of having the "fastest animal appendage movement" was short-lived! In 2020, a termite was documented to have an even faster snap of it's jaws. Check that out here: nature.com/articles/s41598-020-66294-1

Find our original research paper about these snap-jaw ants here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.181447
Press release: https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/727667
"Snap-jaw morphology is specialized for high-speed power amplification in the Dracula ant, Mystrium camillae"
Published in Royal Society Open Science
by
Fred Larabee twitter.com/bugbiter
Adrian Smith twitter.com/DrAdrianSmith
Andrew Suarez twitter.com/AndrewVSuarez

Narration voiced by Eban Crawford: youtube.com/senatorjaiz

Special thanks to Jean Brannum

Find out more about this research here: youtu.be/YNMIupWT4X4