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 ...

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 Jeremy ...

Even the bugs are nonbinary now. 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 ...

These tiny Temnothorax ants just successfully defended their nest entrance against an intruder (a giant Aphaenogaster ant) in Duke Forest, Hillsborough, NC. Magdalena Sorger The exploding ant is ...

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 ...

A newly discovered miniature trap jaw ant from the evergreen tropical forests of Ecuador bears the curious Latin name Strumigenys ayersthey, among hundreds, which are also named in honour of people, ...

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So, imagine the surprise of the researchers who recently discovered that Dracula ants might be the fastest animals on earth. null The Dracula ant is not much of a traveler. Located mostly in the ...

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A rare and unusual newly discovered ant from Ecuador has been named Strumigenys ayersthey, with the suffix '-they' chosen in contrast to traditional naming practices which, to date, fail to recognize ...