SortStack #1744 — 2031-03-19
By speed · Order from slowest to fastest.
- A swimming seahorse 1.5 m/h
The dwarf seahorse is the slowest fish on record, fluttering a tiny fin dozens of times a second to barely move.
- A crawling slug 30 m/h
A slug glides on a ribbon of self-made slime, which lets it cross even a razor's edge unharmed.
- A charging black rhinoceros 54 km/h
A rhino's horn is made of keratin, the same material as your hair and nails, not bone.
- A galloping racehorse 88 km/h
All thoroughbred racehorses descend from just three stallions imported to England centuries ago.
- A fired shotgun slug 1.9K km/h
A shotgun slug is a single heavy projectile that turns a scattergun into a short-range, hard-hitting rifle.
- The International Space Station in orbit 28K km/h
The station circles Earth so fast its crew sees about 16 sunrises and sunsets every single day.