Then there are the trap-jaw ants of the genus Odontomachus, which prefer—oh, I don’t know—not blowing themselves to pieces.As their name would suggest, these ants have remarkable mandibles ...

Trap-jaw ants use a spring-loaded mechanism to release their mandibles at insane speeds. (Image credit: Reproduced with permission of The Company of Biologists. Sutton, G. P., ...

Trap-jaw ants don't just jump, a rarity among ants, they have actually been observed jumping in three distinct ways. Skip to main content Skip to main menu Skip to search Skip to footer.

Trap-jaw ants have long been a source of fascination for Fred Larabee, a postdoctoral researcher at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and lead author of a cutting-edge paper ...

Trap-jaw ants have large mandibles that spring shut incredibly quickly, at speeds above 130 mph, generating a force 300 times greater than their body weight.

As its name implies, the trap-jaw ant has an incredibly powerful chomp. As they bite down, their mandibles travel at an astonishing rate of 130 feet per second (40 m/s), with a total elapsed time ...

Trap-jaw ants can slam their jaws together with extraordinary speed, with the tips of their mandibles racing at up to roughly 120 miles per hour. How they could perform such attacks, ...

It is thought the Florida ants eat the trap-jaw ants—the body parts left over are normally hollowed out. Florida's skull-collecting ant, Formica archboldi, next to trap-jaw ant body parts.

For 60 years, scientists have known that one species of small, rust-colored ant known as Formica archboldi likes to decorate its nests with skulls, or head cases, of several kinds of trap-jaw ants.

The trap-jaw ant has a won notorious reputation in the insect kingdom for its super-strong, spring-loaded mandibles, which it uses to crush prey with ease and defend its nests.

Adult trap-jaw ant mandibles snap shut when something touches the hair-like sensors inside them. They can move at speeds up to 210 feet (64 meters) per second. Developing head.

A newly-discovered ant is now the first animal species to be given a scientific name ending in “they” to honor gender diversity. Researchers named the miniature trap-jaw ant from the luscious ...