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There are ants that move at 1 m/s?! That's terrifying. What kind of ant is that? Will it hurt if it bites me? How can I avoid this ant?

;-) Sure, not as fast as humans, but seeing something small (and potentially with big poisonous pincers) move at that speed is a little freaky.

The Saharan silver ant [1]. It’s actually only about 0.86 m/s but still quite fast for an ant.

The bit about using heat-shock proteins in anticipation of rather than response to (like every other organism) extreme heat is absolutely wild.

Some ants living in sahara. I think I saw that somewhere on hn recently.