CREDIT: SHUTTERSTOCK/J. BICKING. Determining how many transgender people there are in the U.S. has been challenging for a number of reasons, but a new study from the Williams Institute estimates that there are approximately 1.4 million of them â twice as many as were previously estimated.
The Saharan silver ants are the fastest ants in the world, they can go up to 100 bps (human sized thatâs over 330 mph!) So ants are pretty fast. But here is a much faster little critter; the Paratarsotomus macropalpis (a small mite) can run a whopping 322 bps. As a human if we could run that it would be 1,300 mph!! Be glad we are big and they are not!
But they make up for it with running skills. The researchers clocked them at 6.8km/h (4.2mph) and 9km/h (5.6mph) respectively. On this measure, C. hudsoni-capable of covering 2.5 metres (8ft) in one second-is the fastest running insect. At top speed its visual system cannot keep up, and it has to slow down to see anything. Size matters. However, in a contest of speed relative to size, another species heads the pack.