SortStack #2199 — 2032-06-16
By speed · Order from slowest to fastest.
- A Komodo dragon walking 4.8 km/h
The largest lizard alive, it has venom glands and a bite that can topple prey far larger than itself.
- A swarming desert locust 14.5 km/h
A single locust swarm can contain billions of insects and devour as much food in a day as tens of thousands of people.
- A wild boar running 45 km/h
Wild boars are spreading across the globe, rooting up so much soil they reshape entire ecosystems.
- 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 bullet train at full speed 330 km/h
Japan's bullet trains have a near-perfect safety record, with average delays measured in seconds, not minutes.
- A meteor entering the atmosphere 50K km/h
Most shooting stars are no bigger than a grain of sand, burning up bright from sheer speed alone.