These Desert Ants Gallop at a Blistering 108 Body Lengths Per Second
Discover Magazine - Thu 17 Oct 19Saharan silver ants. The insects can move at blistering speeds across fiery desert sands. (Credit: Pavel Krasensky/Shutterstock) Around noon each day in the Sahara Desert, silver ants emerge ...
Desert ant runs so fast it covers 100 times its body length per second
Newscientist - Wed 16 Oct 19Saharan silver ants only have 10 minutes a day to find food in the searing desert heat, so they have evolved to run at almost a metre per second
Holy galloping ants
Cosmos Magazine - Wed 16 Oct 19The Saharan silver ant clocks up record speeds over blistering hot sands. Natalie Parletta reports.
World's fastest ant hits recording breaking speed of 855mm/s
Phys.org - Wed 16 Oct 19According to Noël Coward, mad dogs and Englishmen are the only creatures that go out in the midday sun, but Harald Wolf from the University of Ulm, Germany, would add another animal: Saharan ...
Newly identified compounds could help give fire ants their sting
Phys.org - Wed 16 Oct 19Native to South America, imported fire ants have now spread to parts of North America and elsewhere around the world. These invasive pests have painful stings that, in some cases, can cause ...
Newly identified compounds could help give fire ants their sting, Eurekalert - Wed 16 Oct 19Assessing the rationality of time investment when rock ants choose a nest site
Phys.org - Wed 16 Oct 19A team of researchers from the University of Oxford and Arizona State University has carried out experiments with rock ants to assess their rationality of time investment when they choose a ...
Behold the world's fastest ant, star of a future sci-fi horror flick - CNET
CNET Cutting Edge - Thu 17 Oct 19The movie hasn't been made yet, but it should be.
Fastest ant in the world lives in the Sahara and it runs for dear life — at around 85 cm per second
ZME Science - Thu 17 Oct 19Gotta go fast.
World's fastest ant runs equivalent of 360 mph
FOXNews - Thu 17 Oct 19The speed of the fastest ant in the world has been recorded, traveling at 108 times its body length in a single second.
World's fastest ant hits record-breaking speed of TWO miles per hour
Daily Mail - Wed 16 Oct 19Named the Saharan silver, after its home, it can cover almost a yard - in a single second. That's 108 times its body length of a third of an inch. In human terms, it would be equivalent to running ...