An example of the trap-jaw ant escaping by snapping its mandibles against a hard surface to "escape" which launches the ant a few inches into the air A Final Takeoff The Corning Museum of Glass ...

The fossil may shed new light on that evolutionary question. It's a Snap The animal kingdom has a new champ: the trap-jaw ant has the fastest known bite, besting even the great white shark.

Wood named them “trap-jaw” spiders because their mechanism for catching prey—like that of so-called trap-jaw ants—resembles a mouse trap clamping shut. For the present study, Wood and colleagues ...

Effective, homemade ant traps are simple enough to make yourself with ingredients on hand or found at your pharmacy, supermarket, farm-supply store, or favorite online retailer. To keep ant armies ...

That model suggested that the split ensures that the stress on the joint between the mandible and the ant’s head is zero. The study authors found that if the energy generated by the jaw closing is ...