Movie 4.

3D model of the mandibular joint. Digital data of the micro-CT images were converted into STL files and then printed out using a 3D printer. The movie was made using a series of snapshot of the 3D model with different positions of the mandible.

Embodied latch mechanism of the mandible to power at ultra-high speed in the trap-jaw ant Odontomachus kuroiwae

Hitoshi Aonuma, Keisuke Naniwa, Yasuhiro Sugimoto, Kyohsuke Ohkawara, and Katsushi Kagaya

Journal of Experimental Biology 2023. 226:None-None; doi: 10.1242/jeb.245396