Scientists said the Saharan ant is the world's fastest ant. It runs at over 3kph. This is the ant of a person running 580kph. It runs 108 times its body every second. It makes up to 50 strides a . This almost breaks the of what is possible for a living . An Olympic 100-meter runner makes four strides a second. The ants' feet touch the for a very short - just seven milliseconds before they take the next .
The silver ant runs fast because the is hot. The sand can be 60 Celsius. The ant doesn't want to spend time on the sand. Also, the ants will sink a and slow down if they spend too on the sand. A said the ants' feet move so fast because of their habitat. Their fast speed stops their feet sinking into the sand. He said knew how fast the ants really were, and how they could run fast.
