You are viewing a single comment's thread from:

RE: Surviving the Extremes: 70°C Ants!

in #science7 years ago

Cataglyphis, or wilderness ants, is a genus of ant inside the subfamily Formicinae. Its most famous species is C. bicolor, the Sahara wilderness ant, which runs on warm sand to find bugs that died of warmth exhaustion, and may, like different numerous other Cataglyphis species, preserve body temperatures of up to 50 °C. Cataglyphis is also the call of an autonomous rover that received the NASA pattern return robotic Centennial challenge, stimulated through the navigation processes used by barren region ants.

Well done!

Sort:  

Thanks for summarising?

Coin Marketplace

STEEM 0.17
TRX 0.16
JST 0.029
BTC 75969.36
ETH 2843.76
USDT 1.00
SBD 2.56