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This Tiny Ant Uses Its Jaws To Catapult Itself Through The Air

Trap-Jaw Ants and Their Lightning-Fast Escape

  • Publish date: Monday، 10 August 2026 Reading time: 1 min read
This Tiny Ant Uses Its Jaws To Catapult Itself Through The Air

The tropical trap-jaw ant possesses one of the fastest recorded biological movements in the animal kingdom. Beyond striking prey, these insects snap their powerful mandibles against the ground to catapult themselves out of harm's way.
 

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