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Old August 31st, 2017 #1
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Default Ant jaws snap shut 700 times quicker than a blink of an eye

Ant jaws snap shut 700 times quicker than a blink of an eye

“In ways that become wholly apparent only when one’s line of sight is dropped to a millimetre off the ground,” wrote myrmecologists Edward O. Wilson and Bert Holldobler in their 1994 book Journey to the Ants, “ants lie heavily upon the rest of the fauna and flora.”

In research published this week in the Journal of Experimental Biology, the way in which one particular species of ant dominates its own little patch of flora and fauna has finally been made plain. All it required was a microscope, a machine capable of micro-computed tomography (micro-CT), and movie camera equipped with a macro lens able to shoot 50,000 frames per second.

https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/a...link-of-an-eye
 
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