"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A majority of species in the animal kingdom use mandibles for eating, and this bright idea might’ve ...

The Dracula ant's spring-loaded jaws release a powerful blow that hits speeds 5,000 times faster than the blink of an eye A TINY ant that drinks the blood of its own young to survive has been named ...

An examination of an aquatic, shrimplike creature that lived half a billion years ago offers insight into how arthropods with mandibles became so common. By Rebecca Dzombak About 70 percent of the ...

Palaeontologists are helping resolve the evolution and ecology of Odaraia, a taco-shaped marine animal that lived during the Cambrian period. Fossils reveal Odaraia had mandibles. Palaeontologists are ...

Paleontologists help depict the history of the ancient world one fossil at a time, and now a new fossil is telling the story of a particular member of the Mandibulata family known as Tokummia ...

With mandibles that snap at up to 200mph (90 meters per second) Mystrium camillae, otherwise known as a Dracula ant, now holds the new speed record for fastest known animal appendage, beating out the ...

Move over, trap-jaw ants and mantis shrimp: There's a faster appendage in town. According to a new study, the Dracula ant, Mystrium camillae, can snap its mandibles at speeds of up to 90 meters per ...

What’s the fastest animal in the world? You might guess a cheetah, a sailfish, or a peregrine falcon. According to new research, however, all of those are wrong. The fastest animal in the world is an ...

Around 500 million years ago a strange creature with bulging eyes, a rudderlike tail and 30 pairs of spiny limbs extending from its cigar-sized body swam through Earth’s seas. Most of its legs ...

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A TINY ant that drinks the blood of its own young to survive has been named the world’s fastest animal. The Dracula ant, a feisty bug found only in Madagascar, boasts spring-loaded jaws that it uses ...