Fastest ants in world found in northern Sahara

[BeBMan]

The sand dunes of the northern Sahara are home to the fastest ants in the world, according to researchers who clocked the insects foraging for food in the blistering midday sun.

Video footage reveals the ants galloping across the scorching sand at speeds approaching one metre per second, the equivalent of a house cat tearing about at 120mph.

The faster the ants ran, the more they took to the air, in gallops that brought all six legs off the ground at once. At full pelt, the insects travelled 108 times their body length per second, the researchers found.

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full: https://www.theguardian.com/science/...orthern-sahara

Exciting news for Antman.

[Lorizael]

I'd be fast too if I had six feet touching hot sand all day.

[BeBMan]

Absolutely

If we give them ants a couple million years more time to evolve they may get to speeds that allow them to enter Earth orbit. A big step for anthood.

[Felch]

Once you have insects launching themselves into space, you can go full Starship Troopers with an interstellar bug war.

Except we're the bug planet. Which doesn't really work now that I think of it. Or maybe we'd all (humans and bugs) agree that Earth is neutral, and we only fight over other planets.

[Broken_Erika]

....... Or maybe we'd all (humans and bugs) agree that Earth is neutral, and we only fight over other planets.

The Dolphino-Martian Illuminati endorses this proposal.