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Though it's not a particularly revealing photo, Masters of the Universe actor Sam C. Wilson has shared a teasing glimpse of ...
Just a day after one Masters of the Universe star teased his Moss Man prosthetics, another actor has been giving fans an ...
The first glimpses of Moss Man and Trap Jaw in the live-action Masters of the Universe movie have been revealed. Travis ...
video: The animation shows the changes in form as the trap-jaw mechanism becomes more divergent from the ancestral form. The jaws (yellow) develop small projections that can latch onto the labrum ...
Trap-jaw ants, which have powerful jaws that snap shut on prey, use their massive mandibles to propel their bodies out of harm’s way. By snapping their wide mouths shut against the ground or ...
Here’s how it works. Moving at speeds thousands of times faster than the blink of an eye, the spring-loaded jaws of a trap-jaw ant catch the insect's prey by surprise and can also launch the ant ...
These "trap-jaw ants" can capture their prey with a strike more than 2,000 times faster than the blink of a human eye and escape predators by propelling themselves in backward leaps with a snap of ...
It’s so quick that should a toad set its eyes on a trap-jaw and fire its tongue, the ant can launch itself clear out of danger before the tongue can fully unravel out of the toad’s face.
For 60 years, scientists have known that one species of small, rust-colored ant known as Formica archboldi likes to decorate its nests with skulls, or head cases, of several kinds of trap-jaw ants.
Upon its discovery, experts soon noticed its nests were full of the decapitated heads of trap-jaw ants. Species from this carnivorous genus (Odontomachus) are known to be fearsome predators—so ...
Trap-jaw ants are known for using their powerful jaws to launch themselves into the air, somersaulting several times their own body length to evade predators. But some of these ants have another ...