The Fastest Animal on Earth: the Snap-Jaw Ant

*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: Find our original research paper about these snap-jaw ants here: Press release: “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 Adrian Smith Andrew Suarez Narration voiced by Eban Crawford: Special thanks to Jean Brannum Find out more about this research here: