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 ...

Saharan silver ants don't have an easy life, even by ant standards. In order to avoid predators, they have to look for food during the hottest time of the day — when desert surface temperatures ...

Wolf et al. found the silver ants were able to hit speeds of 0.855 meters per second, or 108 body lengths per second. Only the California coastal mite and the Australian tiger beetle are faster ...

The shiny hairs of the Saharan silver ant simultaneously reflect sunlight and permit the release of body heat, keeping the insects just cool enough to scavenge in the extreme summer sun.

The Saharan silver ant – named after where it lives – can put in 50 strides a second, covering a distance of nearly a metre (85.5cm).

Tiny frogs, spiny ants among 200 newfound species. More than 200 new species of plants and animals were found in Papua New Guinea last year, researchers revealed Tuesday.

The dragons from 'Game of Thrones' have come to life in insect form. New ant species that appear dragon-like due to their large and distinctive spines were recently found in the tropical ...