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, ...

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 are known for their oversize jaws that can snap shut faster than the blink of an eye to nab the insects' prey. Recently, researchers uncovered the adaptations that enable this ...

Unlike the termite, the trap jaw ant uses its huge mandibles to capture prey. But it's what else it does with its mouth that really fascinated the Patek lab at the University of Massachusetts ...

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.

When you squash a trap-jaw ant (genus Odontomachus), it releases a pheromone from its head that warns other ants of the nearby threat. To us, the pheromone smells like chocolate.

The trap-jaw ant was named after the late artist and human rights activist Jeremy Ayers, a friend of study co-author Douglas Booher. When naming a species after an individual, scientific tradition ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered a rare new miniature trap-jaw ant in the tropical forest of Ecuador in South America. The new insect has been named Strumigenys ayersthey after activist and artist ...

March 2 (UPI) --How did the trap-jaw ant evolve such a complex mechanism for snatching its prey?Today, the mandibles of trap-jaw ants take many forms, suggesting a tremendous level of anatomical ...

Powerful and deadly, the bite of a trap-jaw ant is renowned throughout the animal kingdom. Unlike normal gripping jaws, which rely on muscles to open and close, the trap-jaw latches itself open ...