Fastest muscle movement
- Who
- Forcipomyia midge
- What
- 0.00045 second(s)
- Where
- United Kingdom
- When
- 01 January 0001
The fastest muscle movement ever recorded from any animal is the muscular contraction-expansion cycle that occurs in 0.00045 seconds (1/2218th of a second), yielding the 62,760 wingbeats per minute (1,046 wingbeats per second) recorded from a tiny Forcipomyia midge under natural conditions. This is also the fastest wingbeat documented for any animal.