So, on reading the NY Times Tuesday special - the Science Times - I found an article previously mentioned to me, about ants with a rather interesting means of transportation. Instead of just walking like everyone else, they use their mandible (jaw) to flip them up into the air. These jaws are powerful - they can fling as much as 300 times the weight of the ant, and can close at a speed of 200 meters per second. Meters per second is a measurement of velocity, which is a derived unit of length and time. Scientists keep and take track of measurements like this in order to keep some kind of fixed data on file for that species of ant.
Personally, I would like to know how that ant would take on that type of evolutionary path... What benefit do you see in flying from your face?
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