Most ants dextrously grasp and snip their food with a pair of chopstick-like mandibles. But trap-jaw ants are also capable of crashing their jaws together at blisteringly fast speeds, striking victims ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A tiny ant has the fastest jaw in the animal kingdom -- literally quicker than the blink of an eye. The trap-jaw ant's scientific name may be ponderous, Odontomachus bauri, but this ...

Viviane was a Churchill Scholar at the University of Cambridge, where she studied early tetrapods. Her PhD at Duke University focused on the role of oxygen in insect body size regulation. After a ...

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Fernandes, Itanna O., Larabee, Fredrick J., Oliveira, Marcio L., Delabie, Jacques H. C., and Schultz, Ted R. 2021. "A global phylogenetic analysis of trap-jaw ants ...

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