It is thrown into the grass, crawling or spinning and jumping; it is thrown into the water, quickly adjusting its posture, ...

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 ...

Scientists have recorded the speed of the world’s fastest ant, which lives in the Sahara and is able to travel 108 times its own body length per second. Harald Wolf, a professor at the University of ...

A severed ant head. A fly wing. A beetle abdomen. These body parts ripped from devoured insects festoon a newfound caterpillar’s protective coat. Dubbed the “bone collector,” this caterpillar species ...

Dongwei Yuan, Shun Zhou, Suning Liu, Kang Li, Haigang Zhao, Shihui Long, Hanhan Liu, Yongfang Xie, Yunlin Su, Fengwei Yu, Sheng Li Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The long-eared jerboa (rhymes with Samoa) measures about 4 inches (10 centimeters) from head to ...

Finding rare creatures often takes patience and sharp eyes. In Queensland’s rainforests, two scientists recently spotted something remarkable high in the canopy. It turned out to be a stick insect ...