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!
Following strict proportions means that the ant sized human would travel 1/150 as fast or 18 meters per hour, which would be about 0.5 cm per second. Not very fast. (Not by editor: A typical speed of a large ant is 300 meters per hour - but this varies of course much with the species of ant.