The Dracula ant snaps its jaw shut 5,000 times faster than you can blink
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It’s a snap, quite literally.
Like human fingers, Mystrium camillae mandibles can slide past each other at blazing speeds, though the ants’ snaps are one thousand times faster.
via Popular Science "https://ift.tt/2Eh386q"
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