The world’s newly crowned fastest known ants don’t look as if they’ve got the legs to be champs. Saharan silver ants (Cataglyphis bombycina) have merely runner-up proportions, with legs ...

Like a tiny, glinting missile, the Saharan silver ant blazes across the searing sand in search of dead animals that have succumbed to the heat. Now, new research reveals these fleet-footed ...

While skittering across the African desert at high noon might sound like a death wish, it’s only natural for the Saharan silver ant (Cataglyphis bombycina). The insect emerges from its nest in the ...

Move over, Usain Bolt. We've got a new speed demon. The speed of the fastest ant in the world has been recorded, traveling at 108 times its body length in a single second, or the human equivalent ...

Saharan silver ants (Cataglyphis bombycina) can reach jaw dropping speeds of 855 millimeters per second, making these teeny scavengers the Usain Bolts of the ant kingdom. The species lives in the ...

Willot Q, Simonis P, Vigneron J-P, Aron S. Total Internal Reflection Accounts for the Bright Color of the Saharan Silver Ant. PLoS ONE , 2016 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0152325 Cite This Page : ...

One ant species in the Sahara Desert is covered by a silvery sheen of body hair that acts as a wearable sun shield for the creatures, a new study finds. The silvery hairs completely reflect the ...

of any known ant species. The Saharan silver ant can scurry across the hot sands of northern Africa at blistering speeds, surpassing three feet in a second. Relative to body size, that would be ...