Saharan silver ants don’t have the longest limbs. But they make up for it with a sprightly combination of fast pacing, light-footedness, and synchronized stepping that effectively turns their six legs ...

Using a synchrotron powered CT scanner, the Antscan project created an open-source digital library cataloguing thousands of ...

The world’s fastest ant can run at almost a metre per second, covering more than 100 times its own body length in that time. The Saharan silver ant (Cataglyphis bombycina) has one of the most extreme ...

Imagine sprinting barefoot across a searing hot parking lot in midsummer. The ground blazes. The light dazzles and blinds your eyes. Shade is a distant memory. And you want to move as fast as you can ...

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