This spider from New Zealand has lightning fast jaws
 

This spider from New Zealand has lightning fast jaws
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There are plenty of insects and reptiles out there that are quick when it comes to prey, but this trap-jaw spider might just be too fast for them.

Researchers at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History have discovered some tiny Mecysmaucheniid "trap-jaw" spiders can snap their jaws so fast, that they needed to be captured at 40,000 frames a second by a high speed camera.

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The spiders are only found in New Zealand and southern parts of South America, with the quickest of the 14 species of*trap-jaw spider closing their jaw more than 100 times faster than the slowest. Read more...


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