Blink-and-Go: The World’s Fastest Predator Bites

The article surveys the fastest animal bites, highlighting vipers (terciopelo) striking at about 3.5 m/s to subdue prey, the hairy frogfish delivering a suction-like bite that opens its mouth up to 12 times its size in 1/6000 of a second, and the dracula ant whose jaws snap shut at roughly 320 km/h in ~20 microseconds; these examples illustrate extreme bite mechanisms among snakes, fish, and insects, with occasional comparisons to faster movers like cheetahs and peregrine falcons.