Powerful and deadly, trap-jaws are a record-breaking evolutionary innovation. Unlike normal gripping jaws, which rely on muscles to open and close, the trap-jaw latches itself open, storing energy ...

March 2 (UPI) -- How did the trap-jaw ant evolve such a complex mechanism for snatching its prey? Today, the mandibles of trap-jaw ants take many forms, suggesting a tremendous level of anatomical ...

Trap Jaw appears to be an entirely original sculpt, save maybe the crotch and abs. The mechanical arm and its harness are removable, to swap out for a pre-cyborg arm and display him as Kronis.

The jaw-snapping jumps have been observed in three types of ants too, Odontomachus, Anochetus (Ponerinae), and Strumigenys (Myrmicinae), Sorger writes. The trap-jaw ant, Odontomachus, can be found ...

Trap-jaw ants are prevalent throughout Central and South America, but the characteristics of the species Fisher and Suarez brought back hadn't been studied closely until they landed in Patek's lab.

Then there are the trap-jaw ants of the genus Odontomachus, which prefer—oh, I don’t know— not blowing themselves to pieces. As their name would suggest, these ants have remarkable mandibles ...

Trap-jaw ants have large mandibles that spring shut incredibly quickly, at speeds above 130 mph, generating a force 300 times greater than their body weight. They've adapted this ability to escape ...

The fastest trap-jaw spider was Zearchaea sp4, a species from New Zealand that’s yet to be formally named and described, which snaps its jaws shut at 8.5 meters (28 feet) per second -- that’s ...

Regardless of whether the ants had the trap jaws, they were still able to prey upon springtails, which are “named for their hydrostatic spring-escape mechanism,” Booher said. That’s because ...

The head and mouthparts of a trap-jaw ant in the second stage of larval development. Only about 0.4 percent of the 16,000 known ant species have been studied in the larval stage, making this a ...

She recorded different species of trap-jaw spiders with the hunch that trap-jaw spiders might be using their specialized “head” anatomy to snap their chelicerae shut at extremely fast speeds. Wood ...

During the experiment, the researchers let antlions build pits in cups filled with sand, and then dropped trap-jaw ants into the pits. The researchers recorded 117 trials with high-speed video.